Daniele Dionisio - New to IQsensato’s Guest Papers section is a short paper entitled Cutting edge fixed-dose brand HIV drug combinations to speed up enforcement of UNITAID patent pool plan contributed by myself (Member, European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases).
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Cutting edge fixed-dose brand HIV drug combinations to speed up enforcement of UNITAID patent pool plan
Monday, June 7th, 2010Three books on IP launched in Brazil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Pedro Paranagua – Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a higher education institution comprised of four Schools (Economic, Business, Law, and Social Science), placed amongst the world’s top-5 “policy-maker think-tank” according to the US magazine Foreign Policy has launched three new books (in Brazilian Portuguese) on intellectual property -related fields.
Opening up Global Innovation – Beyond the Rhetoric
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Sisule Musungu – ‘Open innovation’ is on everyone’s lips these days. From industry gurus to business schools to governments, international organisations through to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). But will ‘open innovation’ deliver anything new or is it just another sexy phrase that will come and go and leave only despair in its wake?
The WIPO Conference on IP and Public Policy: Suggestions for Improvement
Friday, July 17th, 2009The WIPO Conference on IP and Public Policy Conference which took place in Geneva on 13-14 July 2009 was notable for the participation of renowned speakers from different UN agencies, governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector. Many speakers brought to the audience their experience in dealing with issues that are critical to the IP policy-making process in light of the public interest. In the Climate Change Panel, Haroldo Machado Filho, suggested the creation of a public multilateral fund for purchasing licenses with a view to facilitate technology transfer, and compulsory licensing in national emergencies related to climate change. These two ideas are in line with the discussions pushed forth by developing countries in the UNFCCC. The audience would have had an interest to discuss these suggestions in detail, unfortunately there was no time left for discussion during the morning session of the first day. This was one of the weaknesses of the Conference.
The WIPO Conference on IP & Public Policy Issues – A Preview
Monday, July 13th, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is to hold, today and tomorrow (13th and 14th July 2009), a major international conference on intellectual property and public policy issues. It promises to be quite an event, a first in many ways. According to the initial list of participants, more than 600 people are registered for the conference with approximately 192 of these being government officials, 38 being representatives of intergovernmental organisations and 82 from NGOs, civil society and industry groups that are observers to WIPO.
