Generics, Biosimilars Makers Join Global Medical Harmonisation Body 15/06/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Doors to a global medical harmonisation organisation opened to the generic and biosimilar industry, which described it as an historical moment for them. The industry will now be able to sit on the assembly of the international body that joins regulators with the pharmaceutical industry.
Panels Brainstorm Ideas On Innovation And Drug Access 15/06/2016 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The quest of balance between encouraging medical innovation and the imperative of broad access to medicines has so far been elusive. Two Harvard University programmes jointly organised a workshop this week with the aim of encouraging a conversation between global health actors and see if some “outside the box” thinking is possible.
UN Development Agency Issues Guidelines For Pharmaceutical Patent Examiners 15/06/2016 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment A new set of guidelines for pharmaceutical patent examination has been published by the United Nations Development Programme that seek to help reduce poor quality patents and ensure efficient market entry of generic products. The guidelines, written by a well-known advocate of access to medicines, aim at advising patent examiners in assessing the patentability requirements of applications relating to pharmaceutical products and processes.
More Changes In UN Agencies; Movements In Global Health 14/06/2016 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Movement has been happening in international organisations in recent weeks, particularly in United Nations agencies, as new executive directors were nominated, and department directorships changed hands. The private sector and non-governmental organisations also saw a number of position switches and nominations, in particular in the health sector. Law offices kept pace with the usual chair revolving.
Innovation et accès : fission ou fusion ? Entretien avec Tim Wilsdon, Vice-président de CRA 14/06/2016 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Dans le sillage du Groupe de Haut Niveau des Nations Unies sur l’accès aux médicaments, cette série d’articles sponsorisés convie des experts à donner leur point de vue sur les politiques les mieux à même de favoriser l’élaboration de solutions aux plus importants enjeux sociétaux ; ils nous expliquent aussi comment un cadre réglementaire favorable, y […]
Alongside UN Commitments To End AIDS, Event On Access Brings Tears, Vision 13/06/2016 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment NEW YORK — Last week, United Nations members agreed on a political declaration on ending AIDS by 2030, with some new and old commitments. Alongside the 8-10 June High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, a side event looked at issues of access and got into intellectual property rights issues.
Amid Allegations Of IP Theft By Corporations, Local Kenyan Innovators React 10/06/2016 by Fredrick Nzwili for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments NAIROBI, Kenya – As start-up and innovation centres spring up across Africa, Kenya – which birthed the continent’s tech movement – is emerging as one of its leading innovation nuclei. But concerns are intensifying here that young inventors are losing their innovations to conglomerates, in what is alleged as intellectual property theft or abuse.
Kenya’s Fledgling Innovation Agency Could Be Dissolved 10/06/2016 by Maina Waruru for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya could disband its infant innovation agency and have its functions taken up by the state’s science, technology and innovation body, if changes suggested by the government to reform the science, technology and innovation (ST&I) sector are carried through.
NTIA, ICANN Tick Another Box On Way To IANA Transition 09/06/2016 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The United States Commerce Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it found the proposal developed by the global internet multistakeholder community to fully privatise oversight over the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS) satisfactory.
EuroDIG 2016: Multi-Stakeholder Soul-Searching 09/06/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Some 800 registered participants gathered for the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Brussels today to talk about internet privacy, security and access. Besides the topical issues, the opening sessions speakers came back time and again to the discrepancy of theory and practice of the much-belaboured “multi-stakeholder principle.”