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World AIDS Day, Public Health and IP

1 Dec, 2014 Tracy Ayodele "Social Innovation", AIDS, Compulsory licensing, Emerging Nations, Featured, generic medicines, Global Trade and IP, Intellectual Property Rights, International Treaties and Obligations, Licensing, Medicine, TRIPs, Uncategorized, WIPO, WTO 0

W O R L D A I D S D A Y World AIDS Day, initially held in 1988 and recognized on the 1st day of December each year, is the first …

Oxfam: US Trade Policy is Undermining Access to Lifesaving Generic Medicine

29 Jul, 2012 Tracy Ayodele Africa, generic medicines, Medicine, Nigeria, Patents, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement 0

Via trade agreements and bilateral pressure, the U.S government is introducing stricter intellectual property rules that will devastate the ability of developing countries to access affordable antiretroviral medicine, thus undermining its commitment to combat …

India’s Incredible Approach to Compulsory Licensing

9 Jul, 2012 Mekhala Chaubal Compulsory licensing, generic medicines, Global Trade and IP, India, IPR enforcement, Patents, TRIPs 1

In March 2012, the Indian Patent Office made waves in the seas of international patent law, by slashing the domestic prices of the cancer-treatment drug Nexavar, and by issuing the country’s first ever compulsory …