Symposium: Access to Medicines, Patent Information and Freedom to Operate – A Joint Technical Symposium by WHO, WIPO and WTO

Where: WHO Headquarters, Geneva
When: 18 February 2011, 9 am – 6 pm

“Limited information on patent status of medical products and related problems for users of such information are frequently raised in policy discussions on access to medicines, including at a recent trilateral technical symposium on Access to Medicines: Pricing and Procurement Practices organized jointly by the WHO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on July 16, 2010. This second of the series of joint symposia will therefore focus on access to medicines, patent information and freedom to operate. A draft programme is available at: http://www.who.int/entity/phi/symposium_feb2011_speakers.pdf

http://www.who.int/phi/access_medicines_feb2011/en/index.html