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Tuesday, November 14, 13:00 Luncheon; 13:20 Panel Discussion @World Intellectual Property Organization, Room A, AB Building Sponsored by: The Brazilian Delegation to WIPO, and the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Background and Purpose There is an increasing recognition in both domestic and international copyright reform debates that […]
Representatives of Corporacion Innovarte, Patient Foundation Nuevo Renacer, Pharmaceutical Chemists Guild, and cancer and hepatitis patients attended the Presidential Palace “La Moneda” on November 10th to deliver a letter to the Chilean President of the Republic, Michelle Bachelet, asking her to instruct the Ministry of Health to declare that there are public health reasons justifying the issuance […]
[Judith Blijden, Communia Association, Link (CC-0)] The last weekend of October in London, Mozilla organised Mozfest, its annual festival for the open internet movement. Mozilla wants to enable communities to contribute to making the internet a healthy place. The festival serves as a platform where civil society organisations, artists, journalists, copyright experts and other creators can […]
Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, Hazel Moir, Joel Lexchin and Ruth Lopert in The Conversation, Link (CC-BY-SA) Negotiators from 11 countries have been racing to resurrect the near-dead Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this weekend. The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal up and running again after the withdrawal […]
German Velasquez South Centre Research Paper 82 November 2017. The debate on generic medicines is not new. What makes it different today is that attacks levelled against biological products are couched in ever more “technical” and abstruse language that confuses even the World Health Organization (WHO). Author Papers
By HU Yuanqiong – Advocates of access to medicines movement would not feel unfamiliar with the issue of patent evergreening on chemical medicines while monopoly could get prolonged through applying for multiple patents on small changes of the same medicine. The similar tricks have also been practiced on other medical products, such as vaccines. As a […]
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