CPTech Documents

• Examples of recent health-related compulsory licenses and disputes.
• Examples of national legislation to allow TRIPS-compliant exports of health products produced under compulsory license.
• CPTech Page on WTO Negotiations over Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health.

• December 12, 2006. James Love. Letter asking USTR to not interfere with the Thai government decision to issue a government-use license on patents covering the AIDS drug efavirenz.
• November 29, 2005. James Love. Not True that Public Health Emergencies Necessary for Compulsory Licensing of Patents.
• February 3, 2003. South Africa - Competition Commission Complaint Against GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Affidavit of James Love.
  • Statement of Information by Consumer Project on Technology Concerning an Alleged Prohibited Practice in Terms of Section 49B(2)(a) of the Competition Act 89 of 1998.
• September 29, 2001, James Love and Michael Palmedo, Examples of Compulsory Licensing of Intellectual Property in the United States.
• September 26, 2001, James Love, Checklist for Fast Track Compulsory Licensing.
• August 21, 2001, James Love Implementing TRIPS safeguards with particular attention to administrative models for compulsory licensing of patents, presented at WHO meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe.
• January 21, 2001. Access To Medicine And Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord: Models For State Practice In Developing Countries, report for UNDP Human Development Report.
• CPTech page on the Cipro patent dispute.