May 7-8 meeting on Health and IPR

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

We are organizing a May7-8 meeting on Health Care and Intellectual
Property rules, which will be held in Washington, DC.  I expect to have
more details out later.  If people are interested in this, or have
suggestions regarding program topics or speakers, please drop me a
line.  I'll have some more details to the list soon.  This will be an
international conference, looking to provide governments and the public
health community with some direction relative for many of the new
disputes (post TRIPS) on health care and Intellectual property,
including such topics as:


Compulsory licensing of medical patents
Patents on pharmaceutical doses, surgical procedures and 
    other medical practices
Alternative mechanisms to support health care R&D
Health Registration Data
Ramifications of new sui generis database laws on clinical 
    data, genetic data, etc.
Barriers to entry of generic drugs
Parallel Importing of medicines
Trademark rights and regulations concerning generic 
    drugs, cigarettes, infant formula and other products
Second use patents.


  Jamie

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James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
love@cptech.org | http://www.cptech.org
202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176