UAEM's Call for GWU to to Cease Industry-Sponsored Intellectual Property Training in India Picked up on PharmaBiz.com

The letter UAEM and several other NGOs wrote to George Washington University calling for the cessation of it's industry-sponsored intellectual property (IP) training in India was picked up India-based PharmaBiz on June 14, 2010.

“'We urge GWU to resist use of the university by industries interested entirely in commercial profits, and to present all the relevant aspects of IP issues—including the importance of IP flexibilities to protect public health and the patent system’s inability to induce innovation for neglected diseases', the US NGOs said.

The nine NGOs who have signed the statement are Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Oxfam America, American Medical Student Association (AMSA), Board of Directors of Students for Free Culture, Health Gap, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), Public Citizen and Doctors without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres – USA."