[Ip-health] Berkeley Law + UAEM Biotech Patent Pool Workshop

[Jay Purcell]

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UC Berkeley Law & UC Berkeley + UCSF's UAEM Chapters is hosting a Workshop
on November 6th, bringing together tech transfer professionals from both
universities and industry to consider the role of patent pools for the
creation of HIV/AIDS and neglected disease therapies.

UNITAID is developing a patent pool for HIV therapies, and GSK opened its
neglected disease pool earlier this year, and recently celebrated the
donation of over 1,000 patented technologies from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
As more companies and labs consider participating, Berkeley Law aims to
bring together actors from throughout the biomedical R+D community to
consider how the pools can work, and explore issues around their management=
,
design, and implementation.

Designed to facilitate collaboration across sectors, our workshop aims to
combine the best science and the best practices of university, industry, an=
d
not-for-profit actors to address a preeminent challenge of our generation =
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the creation and distribution of essential medicines.

More information, including agenda, is available at http://www.law.
berkeley.edu/bclt/patentpools/

Panelists from UNITAID, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, the FTC, Doctors Without
Borders, the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative, Emory University, Duke
University, UC Berkeley, VIA Licensing, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
Fenwick & West, Fish & Richardson, and others will describe current and
planned endeavors to increase innovation and access to therapies. Invited
participants include stakeholders from global health, pharmaceutical and
biotech companies (Tibotec, Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly,
and Genentech, Anacor, Anlylam, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis,
Roche), not-for-profit biomedical research (University of California, UPENN=
,
Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of North Carolina)=
,
and some of the field=92s most important life science and IP counselors
(Covington & Burling, Morgan Lewis, and Morrison|Foerster). Designed to
facilitate collaboration across sectors, the workshop aims to combine the
best science and the best practices of university, industry, and
not-for-profit actors to address a preeminent challenge of our generation .

Registration is open at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt/patentpools/

Limited funding is available to cover registration and/or travel costs.
Please contact purcell [at] berkeley.edu for more information.

-JLP
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purcell [at] berkeley.edu // uc berkeley boalt school of law '11
law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/patentpools/