Commission on Intellectual Property Report

September 2002. Report of the British government's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights. Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy.

Text of the report.
Statements
- September 17, 2002. WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi. Commission report is food for thought on intellectual property.
- September 13, 2002. International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations. The CIPR Report: Possibly More Dangerous to Economic Development than the Alleged Costs of Patents and Copyrights.
- September 12, 2002. Medicins Sans Frontieres. MSF calls on governments to act upon recommendations of the Commission for Intellectual Property Rights.
- September 12, 2002. Oxfam. Response to the Report of the UK government Independent Commission on Intellectual Property Rights.
- September 12, 2002. Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. Patents are essential in fight against world disease, ABPI says in response to CIPR report.
News Stories
- May 8, 2003. Sarah Bosely for the Guardian. UK backs poor nations over medicine patents .
- September 18, 2002. Gichinga Ndirangu for the Nairobi Nation. Intellectual Property Rights Paper Out.
- September 16, 2002. Elizabeth Weise for the USA Today. Report: Ease patent law to aid poor nations.
- September 16, 2002. Sarah Bosely for the Guardian. Taking on the drug dealers.
- September 13, 2002. Geoff Dyer for the Financial Times. Patent rules on drugs 'go too far.'
- September 13, 2002. Heather Stewart for the Guardian. Patent laws hamper war on poverty.
- September 12, 2002. Beth Gardiner for the Associated Press. Panel warns tight patent and copyright rules could hurt poor countries.
- September 12, 2002. Reuters. Patents Spell Dearer Drugs, Seeds for Poor - Report.
- September 12, 2002. Alex Kriby for the BBC. Intellectual property rights 'harm poor.'
Editorials and Op-eds
- October 29, 2002. R.A. Mashelkar in the Wall Street Journal. Tailoring Intellectual Property.
- September 25, 2002. Op-ed by Bruce Lehman in the Legal Times. Key Report Sends Developing Countries a Distorted Message on IP Rights.
- September 21, 2002. Editorial in the Lancet. Patently robbing the poor to serve the rich.
- September 20, 2002. Op-ed by Heather Stewart for the Mail and Guardian. Poor Don't Benefit From Patents.
- September 19, 2002. Editorial in Nature Magazine. More Drugs, Less Protection.
- September 14, 2002. Editorial in the Economist. Imitation v. Inspiration.
Miscellaneous
- April 8, 2003. Richard Morin and Claudia Deane for the Washington Post. Irked Drug Industry May Pull Tank Funds. (This story concerns PhRMA threats to halt its funding of a think tank that sponsored an event at which the IPR Commission's report was discussed.)

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