[Ip-health] INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO TREATMENT: HOW CAN PATENT LAW WORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH?

[Caroline Gallant]

Event in Montreal at McGill University.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO TREATMENT: HOW CAN
PATENT LAW WORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH?

The Faculty of Law Human Right Working Group on
HIV/AIDS and Public Health Presents:

Intellectual Property and Access to Treatment: How Can
Patent Law Work for Public Health?

How is Canada contributing to the global struggle
against HIV/AIDS and other public health problems?
Will Canada amend its access to treatment legislation
to make it work?

Richard Elliot, Deputy Director of the Candian
HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Richard Gold, Executive
Director of the McGill Centre for Intellectual
Property will be on campus to discuss the relationship
between patents and public health and what we can do
to ensure that patent law is a tool for public
health.

Date: Monday March 19, 2007
Location: Thompson House basement, 3650 McTavish
Street, Montreal
Time: 6:30-8pm, with wine and cheese to follow.

Sponsored by HRWG, MGAC, and MIHI/McWHO