Meeting agenda and presentations

A Consultation between Representatives from the Global South (ITPC/I-MAK/Lawyers Collective/Regional Civil Society) and the Medicine Patent Pool/UNITAID, 2 October 2011

1. Final meeting agenda
2. List of meeting participants
3. Broader Impact on Access to Medicines and Generic Industry, Anand Grover (October 2011)
4. Measuring the Impact of Medicines Patent Pool Licenses: A Civil Society Assessment, ITPC & I-MAK, (September 2011)
5. Financial Impact of Medicines Patent Pool: I-MAK/ ITPC Counter Analysis (September 2011)
6. The Patent Pool Gilead Licences

New MPP licences

Information regarding the new licences negotiated by the Medicines Patent Pool with Gilead. There are three licences

1) The Form Sublicence for existing TDF licensees (this is for those licencees who took the earlier 2006 TDF licence. For them the original licence will be amended according to the terms of the new one)
2) Form Sub-licence for new sub-licensees (This is for new sub-licencees who did not take the earlier 2006 TDF licence)
3) The Gilead – MPP licence (This is the main licence agreement between Gilead and the MPP)
4) The press release by the MPP on the announcement of the licence ( 12 July 2011)
5) Q&A on the licences - an updated version in light of the various critiques:

Please note the terms and conditions of both sub-licences are the same (only the beginning defers depending on whether they took the earlier 2006 sub-licence or not)

ITPC-IMAK Comment on the Pool and responses

1. ITPC I-MAK The Broader Implications of the MPP and Gilead Licenses on Access- final 25-7-2011.pdf
2. MPP letter ITPC-IMAK 2011-7-27 final.pdf
3. Q&A The Medicines Patent Pool Q&A Gilead Licences updated August 2011.pdf

Civil Society documents on the new MPP licences

1. Thai CSO open letter MPP.pdf
2. Third World Network. Gilead grants license to Medicines Patent Pool, devil is in details.pdf
3. Latin America letter to MPP.doc
4. ITPC North Africa Gilead and UNITAID Turn Their Backs on North Africans Living with HIV – ITPC-MENA.pdf

Letters from civil society organizations and networks sent in 2009 to UNITAID on the MPP

1. Thai Groups Letter to UNITAID 2009.doc
2. PHM UNITAID Statement Final.pdf
3. Lawyers Collective Letter to UNITAID 2009.doc
4. Indian Civil Society letter -UNITAID- Final.pdf
5. Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV Letter to UNITAID 2009.doc
6. Patent pool letter for NGOs from PHDB_APN+.pdf