Posts Tagged: Patent challenges

COVID-19 pandemic: ‘An opportunity of a lifetime’?

24 Apr 2020
News Research
The race is on to find an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19. Everyone hopes a solution will be...

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Possible treatments for COVID-19 could all be made for $1 a day, say researchers: Pharma must not profit from a pandemic and countries must ACT NOW.

10 Apr 2020
Call to action News Research
Drugs currently being used in COVID-19 treatment trials can all be mass-produced affordably, research from the University of Liverpool, published...

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“People with TB were being routinely imprisoned.” Overhauling Kenya’s TB response, and what the country’s impending COVID-19 crisis can adopt from it.

23 Mar 2020
Interview News
Our campaign partner, KELIN, has helped transform how people living with TB are treated. Their work set a precedent, ending...

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We can’t end AIDS without tackling patent abuse

25 Jan 2020
News Opinion
Despite significant scientific advancements for HIV, along with global and national commitments to ‘end AIDS’, hundreds of thousands of people...

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Removing barriers to affordable treatment: Communities at the centre

10 Nov 2019
News
The work of our campaign partner in Argentina, Fundación Grupo Efecto Positivo (FGEP), has been documented in UNAIDS’ Global AIDS...

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The problem with patents: Commitments to HIV and universal health coverage are being undermined in middle-income countries

23 Sep 2019
News Opinion Research
A joint blog by Othoman Mellouk, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Lead at the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC),...

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Ukraine: First civil society organization to oppose Merck’s patent application ( MK-8591) on the grounds of “obviousness”

29 May 2019
News
On 28 May 2019, 100 Percent Life (the Network) submitted an opposition to the Ukrainian Patent and Trademark Office against...

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Activists file post-grant opposition challenging a patent preventing purchase of cheaper treatment for hepatitis C

11 Apr 2019
News
 GTPI has presented an argument to the Brazilian Patent Office (INPI) to invalidate the patent granted for the drug daclatasvir....

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