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Technology Transfer

Updates

• "Philadelphia Consensus Statement" Calls upon WHO, Academia, to Bolster Poor Nations' Benefits from Health Research
• Tuesday, March 21: Landmark Patent Case Before Supreme Court
• Legal Dispute Ensues Between Researcher and Biotechnology Firm
• Government-Sponsored Open Access Journal to be Considered for Privatization
• India Objects to U.S. “Contract-based Approach” in World Trade Organization Negotiations
• Representative Brown Introduces Bill to Enact Compulsory Licensing During Healthcare Crises
• Senator Schumer Calls for “Immediate Licensing” to Allow U.S. Manufacturers to Produce the Antiviral Drug Tamiflu
• ETC Reports on Impact of Nanotechnology Patents for Global South
• WHO Holds Workshop and Open Forum on IP, Innovation and Health
• University of Pennsylvania Strategizes to Boost Tech Transfer Revenue
• Through Website, Scientists Can Tackle Companies' R&D Challenges
• University Inventions Being Licensed Closer to Commercialization
• USPTO Names First University Rep. to Patent Public Advisory Committee
• Sandia Publicizes IP Available for Licensing
• NIH Requests Comments on Best Practices for Licensing Genomic Inventions
• WHO Initiates 23 Studies on IPRs, Innovation and Public Health
• GSK Tells Blair to Press G8 for Patent Reform
• University of New Mexico Wins IP Dispute
• Patent Challenge Against Columbia University Dismissed
• Egypt to Establish Tech Transfer Centers That Provide IP Help
• European Commission Proposes Generic Export Regulation
• Malaysia Considers Bayh-Dole Equivalent
• Mexican Universities Could Gain Right to Profit From Inventions
• Open Source Biotech Starts in Earnest
• WIPO “Development Agenda” Demanded by Brazil and Argentina
• Merck Licenses AIDS Drug to South African Generic Manufacturer
• African Agricultural Technology Foundation Opens in Kenya
• U.S. and Morocco Sign Free Trade Agreement
• WTO to host public symposium on the Doha Agenda

Publications

• Facilitating humanitarian access to pharmaceutical and agricultural innovation
• Has the Implementation of the TRIPS Agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean Produced Intellectual Property Legislation that Favours Public Health?
• The Effects of Patenting in the AAAS Scientific Community

Meetings

• 26 Mar 2006 16:30: Washington Academy of Sciences-CapSci 2006 SIPPI Symposium
• 17 Feb 2006 14:00: AAAS-SIPPI Annual Meeting: Briefing on Effects of Intellectual Property on Academic Research
• 27 Nov 2005 9:30: Expert Group on Technology Transfer and Scientific and Technical Cooperation
• 26 May 2005: Best Practices in Transfer of Science and Technology
• 25 May 2004: Multilateralism at a Crossroads: WTO annual public symposium
• 22 Apr 2004: 29th Annual Forum on Science and Technology Policy