James Love (NGO director)
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Jamie Love | |
---|---|
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs | |
Occupation(s) | Director, Knowledge Ecology International |
Spouse | Manon Ress |
Children | 4[2][3] |
James Packard Love (born 1950) is the director of Knowledge Ecology International, formerly known as the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-governmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property policy and practice and innovation policy, particularly as they relate to health care and access to knowledge.
An adviser to a number of United Nations agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and in the past has been a member of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue Task Force on Intellectual Property.
Education and early career
Love was born in 1950[4] and grew up in Bellevue, Washington. After finishing high school, Love lived and worked in Alaska for 13 years, initially as a fish cannery worker. In 1974, he founded a non-profit organization, the Alaska Public Interest Group, campaigning for oil companies to give part of their revenues to the community.[3] (This effort eventually led to the establishment of the Alaska Permanent Fund.)
In 1980, Love left Alaska to return to school. He received a Masters of Public Administration from
Public interest career
From 1990 to 2006, Love worked for
In 1997, Love worked with Ralph Nader to push the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an
In 1999, Love and several
In 2001, Love negotiated with
In 2002, at the Barcelona International AIDS conference, Love called for the creation of a
In 2003, Love encouraged colleagues to consider the reform of
Also in 2003, Love worked with several developing country governments, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Zambia and Mozambique on the granting of compulsory licenses on patents for antimalarial drugs. In 2003, the South Africa Competition Commission hired Love and the Consumer Project on Technology to evaluate a compulsory licensing request by Hazel Tau and the South Africa Treatment Access Campaign (TAC). The Competition Commission staff found that GSK and Boehringer were in violation of three sections of South Africa competition laws, leading to licenses on patents for several suppliers of generic AIDS drugs.
In 2004 and 2005, Love worked with Tim Hubbard and others on two separate initiatives to propose new treaty paradigms for intellectual property and innovation.[10] The first was a proposal for a global treaty on medical research and development that would replace blinding norms on patents and other intellectual property rights for medicines. The second was a comprehensive access to knowledge treaty.
In 2005, Love authored a World Health Organization (WHO) and UNDP joint publication titled "Remuneration Guidelines for Non-Voluntary Use of a Patent". The 2005 Remuneration Guidelines introduced the Tiered Royalty Method (TRM), an approach that takes into account differences in incomes between countries, and sets royalties independent of the generic price of product.
In 2007, during discussions with MSF on a possible large prize for the development of a new low cost point of care diagnostic tool for tuberculosis, Love proposed an "open source dividend" mechanism to provide financial incentives to open source research. The open source dividend proposal would later be incorporated into other innovation inducement prize fund proposals.[11]
In 2008, Love and KEI worked with the World Blind Union to convene a meeting to draft a possible treaty on copyright limitations and exceptions for persons who are blind, visually impaired or have other disabilities. (The treaty proposal was formerly tabled by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2009.) A diplomatic conference led to the negotiation of the Marrakesh VIP Treaty in June 2013, now in global effect, having been ratified by over 50 countries including India (first to ratify), all of the European Union and the United States. Love's contribution to the treaty effort was recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation with their EFF Pioneer Award.
In 2012, a panel of the WHO recommended governments begin negotiation on a global treaty on medical R&D, incorporating such principals as the de-linkage of R&D costs from drug prices. The proposal was seen by some as a building block to the broader visions of reform set out in the 2002 Aventis scenario sessions. In 2012, Love gave evidence in a compulsory licensing proceeding in India involving patents held by Bayer on the cancer drug sorafenib (brand name Nexavar). The Nexavar case was the first compulsory license on a patent granted by India, following India's decision to join the World Trade Organization.[12]
Media
James Love's critical role in the battle for access to antiretroviral treatment in Africa and other parts of the global south is portrayed in the award-winning documentary Fire in the Blood (2013 film).[4]
Personal life
Love is married to fellow activist Manon Ress, and they have children from previous marriages and two children together.[3]
References
- ^ "How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach". The Atlantic. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "The Debate Over Internet Governance: Jamie Love". cyber.harvard.edu.
- ^ a b c Boseley, Sarah (26 January 2016). "Big Pharma's worst nightmare - Sarah Boseley". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ a b "The Contributors". Fire in the Blood. 2013-01-20. Archived from the original on 2018-10-17. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "James Love". www.wipo.int.
- ^ "CNN - Ralph Nader to feds: Stop Microsoft - November 11, 1998". www.cnn.com.
- ISBN 9781351470599– via Google Books.
- ^ Klein, Ezra (25 September 2015). "What happened to Bernie Sanders's best idea?". Vox.
- ISBN 9781139487771– via Google Books.
- ^ Hubbard, Tim; Love, James (4 March 2004). "Tim Hubbard and James Love: We're patently going mad". TheGuardian UK.
- ^ "The Prize Fund Model: Interview with KEI's James Love". Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign.
- ^ "If Biden runs for president, he'll need to reboot his record on drug prices". STAT. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2020.