[Ip-health] CPTech Brown Bag Lunch: Noah Novogrodsky on Compulsory Licensing

[judit.rius@cptech.org]

The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a seminar by
Professor Noah Novogrodsky.

Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: 1621 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009

Professor Noah Novogrodsky will present on "Compulsory Licensing in Ghana
- the Continuing Barriers to Affordable Medicines". His presentation will
describe the painfully slow effort to implement the WTO August 30th 2003
Decision through Canadian export legislation and Ghana's Patent Act.

Professor Novogrodsky is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown
University Law Center and the Director of the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law International Human Rights Program. Noah Novogrodsky joined
the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2002 and in September 2003, he
founded Canada's first international human rights clinic at the Faculty.
For each of the past three years, Professor Novogrodsky has taught a
seminar titled =93The HIV/AIDS in Africa Project=94 in connection with the
work of Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General=92s Special Envoy on
HIV/AIDS in Africa. Professor Novogrodsky has also been an organizer of
the University of Toronto-based Access to Drugs Initiative. Professor
Novogrodsky=92s current research agenda focuses on the HIV/AIDS pandemic as
a threat to human security.

To RSVP or more information contact Judit at judit.rius (at) cptech.org or
at +1 202 332 2670

Blog:
http://www.cptech.org/blogs/staff/2006/10/cptech-brownbag-lunch-november-7-=
2006.html