[Ip-health] REMINDER: CPTech Brown Bag with Kevin Outterson on Oct.10

[Benjamin Krohmal]

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The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a seminar by
Kevin Outterson on "Patent Buy-Outs for Global Disease Innovation."

Date: Tuesday October 10, 2006
Time: 12:30-2pm
Venue: 1621 Connecticut Avenue Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009

Kevin Outterson is an Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia
University. He is also a member of the American Health Lawyer's
Association's FDA Task Force. In 2004, Governor Wise appointed him to a
4 year term with the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Cost Management
Council. Some of his professional papers include, "Patent Buy-Outs for
Global Disease Innovations for Low and Middle-Income Countries" and
"Fair Followers: Expanding Access to Generic Pharmaceuticals for
Low-Income Populations."

Professor Outterson's presentation will discuss the concept of patent
buy-outs to facilitate generic competition.


	Some 80% to 90% of the global sales of patented pharmaceuticals
occur in the 30 wealthy countries which are members of the
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), roughly similar to the World
Bank's definition of 29 high-income countries. Pharmaceutical markets
for patented products largely follow the money.
	The mismatch between global pharmaceutical markets and global
disease burdens
leads to an interesting opportunity. Patented pharmaceuticals could
be offered to more than 84% of the world's population at generic
prices. (Only high-income country patients would bear pharmaceutical
patent rents). The gain in health from increasingly affordable
pharmaceuticals would be considerable. The primary disadvantage of
this plan would be a quite small reduction in global R&D cost
recovery; but even this small deficit could be restored to the
companies through a carefully designed patent buy-out mechanism.


Other upcoming brown bags:

October 17th - Thomas Pogge will be presenting a different proposal
for increasing access to pharmaceuticals in his presentation "Social
Justice and New Approaches to Promoting
Pharmaceutical Innovation."

November 9th - Peter Pitts will present a criticism of proposed
medical innovation prizes in his presentation "Is a Medical
Innovation Prize Fund Compatible with Patient-Based Evidence?"

If you would like to join us for Kevin Outterson's brown bag seminar
or for either of the other upcoming brown bags, please RSVP your
name, title,
organization and contact details to: ben.krohmal@cptech.org or
202.332.2670

Benjamin Krohmal
Research Associate
Consumer Project on Technology
Tel: +1-202-332-2670 ex. 14
Fax: +1-202-332-2673
ben.krohmal@cptech.org