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The U.S., acting on behalf of the U.S. biologics industries, will soon be trying to convince parties to the TPP that they should adopt extended data exclusivity for biologics (at least 12 years) as part of the intellectual property chapter. As part of its marketing strategy, the U.S. is trying to convince parties behind the […]
KALYANI MENON-SEN Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab +91-9910306382 Swiss pharma major Roche has just announced that it is relinquishing the patent for its breast-cancer drug Trastuzumab (Herceptin) in India. The announcement comes in the face of mounting challenges – from both civil society and the Ministry of Health – to Roche’s monopoly on this life-saving drug. […]
Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi. Today we’re releasing a study on CEO compensation in copyright-intensive industries. We found that for the past six years, the CEOs of firms in copyright-intensive industries received significantly higher compensation than the CEOs of the firms in the other industries we used for comparison (construction, transportation, and mining). For example, in […]
[Reposted NROER, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is a collaborative platform, involving each and every one of us interested in children, teachers and education. The Repository will endeavour to bring together all digital and digitisable resources for the school system – for all classes, for all subjects and in all […]
Chilean Senators Navarro, Gomez and Tuma introduced a proyecto de acuerdo to the Senate that asks the President to open a public debate on the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). It formally requests the President to provide “timely and accurate” information on the affects the agreement will have on Chile domestically, and on economic and international […]
[Reposted from DisCo, Link] Earlier this summer, I gave a talk in Seoul, Korea regarding how the United States actually has two copyright policies: one domestic and one foreign. These policies differ both in terms of how they are formulated, and what they say. Although these two policies have started converging, they still aren’t the […]
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