December 14, 2011
Graduate Students Press for 'Humanitarian Licensing' Vow in U. of California Patent Policy
An activist for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines tried to raise awareness at the U. of California in 2009 about how poor people in developing countries are denied access to medical advances developed at universities. The group is urging researchers at U. of California campuses not to sign the system's new patent agreement until university leaders commit to a comprehensive "global-access licensing" policy.
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An activist for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines tried to raise awareness at the U. of California in 2009 about how poor people in developing countries are denied access to medical advances developed at universities. The group is urging researchers at U. of California campuses not to sign the system's new patent agreement until university leaders commit to a comprehensive "global-access licensing" policy.
A graduate-student group that pushes universities to make health-related inventions affordable to poor people in developing countries is calling on thousands of researchers in the University of California system not to sign the system's new patent agreement until university leaders commit to a comprehensive "global-access licensing" policy.
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