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Focus on Preventing Blindness in People Living with HIV [MPP Press Release, Link, (CC BY-NC-ND)] The Medicines Patent Pool and Roche today announce an agreement to increase access in developing countries to valganciclovir, a key easy-to-take oral medicine to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV), a viral infection that can cause blindness in people living with HIV. Author […]
Nurul Izzah Anwar, Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai and Vice President of KEADILAN, has called for the creation of a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Trans Pacific Partnership. She further stated that the agreement must be ratified by Parliament before signing. In an op-ed published in the Malay Mail she warned that “…There are […]
//Marco Bellezza, Associate at Portolano Cavallo Law Firm and AnOx 2013 participant, analyzes Italy’s newly released draft regulation on online copyright. [Reposted from the Upenn Center for Global Communication Studies, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND)] Thursday, July 25th, the Italian Communication Authority (“AGCOM”) issued a new draft regulation entitled “Draft regulation on copyright on the electronic communication networks and implementing […]
[Excerpt from article by Amy Kapczynski in the New England Journal of Medicine] India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” because it supplies much of the world’s demand for affordable, generic drugs. So when the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark ruling in April adopting a strict interpretation of the country’s […]
Earlier this month, Brook Baker posted a Civil Society Statement in support of an upcoming Brazilian legislative proposal that would make greater use of TRIPS flexibilities to promote access to medicines. The legislation will be introduced in August and it will “eliminate patent term extensions and data exclusivity, restrict patents on new forms and new […]
[Burcu Kilic and Luigi Palombi] Over the past few years, patent-eligible subject matter has become one of the hotly debated areas of patent law in several countries. Even in the U.S., the Supreme Court is beginning to express concerns about overly inclusive patent rules that stifle both competition and follow-on innovation. However, significant confusion persists […]
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