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KEI Europe comments on the European Commission’s roadmap for an Intellectual Property Action Plan

14 August 2020 Compulsory licensing in the Unitary Patent System.  There should be a provision for a unitary compulsory license in the unitary patent system, that is without prejudice to national compulsory licenses on the unitary patent right.   Non patent market exclusivities.  Sui generis exclusive rights regimes, such as but not limited to regulatory test …

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Commissioner Malmström’s response to Civil Society concerns over the Third Country Report on the Protection of IPRs

On 16 April 2018, KEI Europe and 32 groups wrote a letter to the European Commission’s Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, expressing concerns over the Commission’s plans to create an EU Watch List. In the letter, we noted that although the European Union has publicly reiterated its commitment to support the right of third countries to …

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Position of the European Union relating to World Health Organization negotiations on cancer

On 2nd May 2017, the European Commission responded to KEI Europe’s letter (31st March 2017) requesting the European Union to “support a WHO resolution on cancer that would provide the organization a mandate to conduct a feasibility study of creating a multi-country push and pull fund for cancer R&D predicated upon the principle of the …

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MEP Lola Sánchez questions the European Commission: EU’s position on the UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines at WIPO

On 2 February 2017, MEP Lola Sánchez Caldentey (Podemos, Spain) tabled a series of written questions to the European Commission on the positions taken by the European Union at the World Intellectual Property Organization on 14 December 2016 in relation to the United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines (UN HLP) At the December …

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