INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: WHO-WIPO-WTO JOINT TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM
Access to Medicines: Patent Information and Freedom to Operate
Finding out whether a medicine, vaccine, diagnostic kit or other medical product is patented in various countries is a complex challenge for organizations trying to develop new products and to manufacture and supply them at affordable prices, a joint WHO-WIPO-WTO technical symposium heard on 18 February 2011. Below are the programme and presentations:
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Programme and presentations
09h00–09h30 — Opening Remarks:
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Margaret Chan, Director-General,
World Health Organization (WHO):
remarks
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Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO)
- Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO): remarks
> Video
on WHO website: DG opening speeches
09h30–10h45 — Session 1: Access to medicines, patent information and freedom to operate — the context
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Access and information needs from a public health perspective
Speaker: Zafar Mirza, WHO
> Presentation
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Linking empirical data to policy processes: strengthening the base for policymaking on access to medicines
Speaker: Antony Taubman, WTO
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Managing intellectual property for access
Speaker: Anatole Krattiger, WIPO
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Discussion
Moderator: Hans Hogerzeil, WHO
> Video
on WHO website: Session 1
10h45–11h15 Break
11h15–13h00 — Session 2: Patent information and freedom to operate:
Methodologies and sources of information — case studies
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The patent status of medicines on the WHO model list for essential medicines
Speaker: Stanley Kowalski University of New Hampshire — School of Law
> Presentation
Comments: Richard Laing, WHO
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Understanding the patent status of Antiretroviral Drugs — a Medicines Patent Pool/WIPO collaboration
Speaker: Ellen 't Hoen, Medicines Patent Pool
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Global patent landscape on patenting activities in the field of vaccines
Martin Friede, WHO
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A freedom to operate analysis of dengue vaccines
The comparative role of IP in achieving access
Speaker: Richard Mahoney, International Vaccines Institute
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Discussion
Moderator: Konji Sebati, WIPO
> Video
on WHO website: Session 2
13h00–14h30 Lunch Break
14h30–16h00 — Session 3: Practicalities of patent information use — gaps and needs
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Overview of patent information resources: WIPO experiences on legal status information
Speaker: Lutz Mailänder, WIPO
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Access to medicines: patent information in pharmaceutical procurement
Speaker: Sophie Logez, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Using patent information in managing practical access scenarios
Speaker: Tahir Amin, Intellectual Property Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)
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Discussion
Moderator: Mathias Schaeli, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual
Property
> Video
on WHO website: Session 3
16h00–16h30 Break
16h30–17h45 — Session 4: Panel Discussion: Strengthening the information base for access to medicine strategies — taking stock of experience and charting future directions
Panellists
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Rajiv I. Modi, Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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Eric Notegen, IFPMA / F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
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Gitanjali Sakhuja, UNICEF
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John Kabare, African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
Moderators: Anatole Krattiger, WIPO, and Antony Taubman, WTO
> Video
on WHO website: Session 4
17h45–18h00 — Closing Session
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Speaker: Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO
Moderator: Johannes Christian Wichard, WIPO