[Pharm-policy] Martin Frid on Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[James Love]

>From mjfrid@hotmail.com Tue Jan 25 14:16:14 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:39:49 +0100
From: Martin Frid <mjfrid@hotmail.com>
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
Subject: Re: [Ip-health] US Pressure on Dominican Republic Patent law

Dear Jamie,

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is a right-wing think thank in
Arlington, Va. They have a web site with a lot of articles and stuff
about IP and South America in particular. http://www.adti.net

Jack Kemp, the republican vice-president nominee in 1996 is co-chairman
togheter with Gregory Fossedal (who said in a Voice of America interview
April 1, 1999 that "the Cold War was a great policy, and a victory for
humanity"). The ADTI was named as one of five up-and-coming think tanks
by The National Journal.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: James Love <love@cptech.org>
To: <ip-health@venice.essential.org>
Cc: <healthgap@CritPath.Org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: [Ip-health] US Pressure on Dominican Republic Patent law


>
>    I received this note today from a person in the Dominican
> Republic, regarding US pressure the patent dispute.
>
>    [snip]
>
> The U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic has a campaign going on to
> try to modify the proposal of the goverment for a new intelectual
> property Law. This proposal was approved by the Senate on November and
> it is pending of aproval by the House of Representatives.
>
> As you may imagine the proposal contains provisions that will assure the
> dominican patients acces to new drugs (cumpolsory licenses, Exhaust of
> Rigths, etc.) and this has trigger the critics of the Embassy. They have
> bring to the country so called experts on I.P. to question the proposed
law,
> Doris Long, a professor from John Marshall School of Chicago, prepare a
> document to descredit the law. They use a foundation named Alexis de
> Tocquerville to elaborate another document in the same direction.
>
> The Embassy has make it clear to the Dominican Republic that the benefits
> derivating from the Caribbean Basin Initiative (C.B.I.) and the S.G. P.
and,
> more important than this, the Law that will give this country and others
of
> the region the Parity with Mexico for the treatment of exports to the U.S.
> of textiles manufacturies will be lost if the proposed law is approved
> without modifications.
>
> well I'll be in touch for details
>
>    [snip]
>
>
> James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
> P.O. Box 19367        | http://www.cptech.org
> Washington, DC 20036  | love@cptech.org
> Voice 202/387-8030    | Fax 202/234-5176
>
>
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