20 March 2013 The Pharma Letter US lobby group pressures Greek government to introduce compulsory licensing of drugs Article | 19 March 2013 USA-based not-for-profit lobby group Essential Inventions has written to Greek Health Minister Andreas Lykourentzos, calling on the…
Push for compulsory license in Greece: Health over patents
Compulsory license sought for BMS drug as Greece gives CL a hard look Move comes as U.S. Congress looks at tying IP rights to Indian trade favors March 18, 2013 | By Eric Palmer The fight over drug patents in…
Researchers and civil society demand transparency in clinical trials in ITRE vote
Dear Member of the European Parliament, As researchers, doctors, scientists and civil society representatives we are asking you to support the inclusion of strong transparency provisions in the Clinical Trial Regulation that is currently being discussed. Please find attached our…
Irish Presidency and Germany want to remove access to medicine from Horizon 2020
Article referring to access to medicine, approved by the European Parliament, that the EU Council wants to remove from the Rule of Participation of Horizon 2020, the giant EU framework for research and innovation. The Irish Presidency of the EU…
Please act now to save blind people´s WIPO treaty from EU negotiators!
Respond to the call of the European Blind Union and contact your government´s representatives or copyright department in EU or US to ask them to stop supporting the fatal weakening of the text of the WIPO Treaty for the Visually…
“Licences for Europe – A Stakeholder Dialogue” text and data mining for scientific research purposes working group
Letter from participants in response to “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” text and data mining for scientific research purposes workshop. Dear Commissioners Barnier, Geoghegan-Quinn, Kroes and Vassiliou, “Licences for Europe –A Stakeholder Dialogue”…