James Love
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James Packard Love 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, Mr. 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.
Before graduate school, Mr. Love lived and worked in Alaska for 13 years. He was a member of the State of Alaska Investment Advisory Committee when the Alaska Permanent Fund was created. He was later Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University
, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University
. He received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University
's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
.
As a graduate student at Princeton, Love worked with Joseph Stiglitz.
At the Frank Russell Company, Love was a developer of a return attribution system for the DEC pension fund, a co-developer of a portfolio reporting system for the IBM pension fund, and worked with the Ford Foundation
to evaluate social investing by state investment funds.
From 1990 to 2006, Love worked for Ralph Nader
's Center for Study of Responsive Law, where among other things, he led an early effort to expand public access to U.S. government funded databases. One element of this involved the "Crown Jewels Campaign," which targeted public access to the most important and valuable federal databases, including those involving United States Securities and Exchange Commission
filings, patents, bills pending before the Congress, medical abstracts and court opinions and statutes, among others.
In 1994, Love began working on the international trade aspects of intellectual property rights, particularly as they related to medical technologies.
In 1996, Love worked with Richard Stallman to create the Union for the Public Domain, which focused its attention on defeating a proposal at a WIPO diplomatic conference to adopt a treaty for the protection of non-copyrighted elements of databases.
In 1997, Robert Weissman and Love worked with the South Africa group to push back against trade pressures from the Clinton Administration, and Vice-President Al Gore
, Jr. in particular, on issues concerning patents rights on pharmaceutical drugs. Love worked with the South African Health authorities when the South Africa Medicines Act was revised in 1997.
In 1997, Love worked with Ralph Nader to push the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an antitrust
case against Microsoft
for anti-competitive conduct relating to web browsers and other software products running on Windows. Nader and Love later asked several computer manufacturers to offer consumers the choice of Linux
or other operating systems, and pressed OMB
to consider using its procurement power to require Microsoft and others to use open data formats.
In 1999, Love and several AIDS
activists and public health group such as MSF
, Health Action International (HAI) and Act Up launched a global campaign to promote the compulsory licensing of patents on medicines for AIDS and other illnesses.
In 2001, Love negotiated with Dr. Yusuf Hamied
, head of Cipla
, a leading Indian generic drug manufacturer, a $1 per day price for the AIDS treatment regime NVP+D4T+3TC. The "Cipla Offer" made headlines all over the world and motivated Kofi Annan
and others to call for the creation of the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria. In November 2001, a Wall Street Journal editorial singled out the Consumer Project on Technology for pushing the World Trade Organization
to adopt the Doha Declaration
on TRIPS and Public Health.
In 2002, at the Barcelona International AIDS conference Love called for the creation of a patent pool
for patents on HIV and other essential medicines. In the fall of 2002, Tim Hubbard and Love participated in a radical scenario planning exercise organized by Aventis
, the pharmaceutical and life sciences company, and developed proposals to eliminate legal monopolies on new medicines, and to expand support for open science projects. Among the Radical Pharma Scenario proposals were to replace intellectual property obligations in the WTO TRIPS accord and trade agreements with multilateral agreements on funding medical R&D, and to reform the incentive systems by replacing patent
monopolies with cash prizes. Love and Hubbard and also proposed systems of "competitive intermediaries" to manage funding for open science projects. Working with artists and activists such as Alan Toner and Jamie King, in 2002 Love proposed the Blur/Banff model for supporting artists who recorded music.
Consumer Project on Technology
Knowledge Ecology International is a non-governmental organization. It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology. It deals with issues related to the effects of intellectual property on public health, cyberlaw and e-commerce, and competition policy...
, a non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...
with offices in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
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
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue founded in 1998 "is a forum of US and EU consumer organizations which develops and agrees on joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making".TACD is an important forum for...
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.
Before graduate school, Mr. Love lived and worked in Alaska for 13 years. He was a member of the State of Alaska Investment Advisory Committee when the Alaska Permanent Fund was created. He was later Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...
.
As a graduate student at Princeton, Love worked with Joseph Stiglitz.
At the Frank Russell Company, Love was a developer of a return attribution system for the DEC pension fund, a co-developer of a portfolio reporting system for the IBM pension fund, and worked with the Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
to evaluate social investing by state investment funds.
From 1990 to 2006, Love worked for Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
's Center for Study of Responsive Law, where among other things, he led an early effort to expand public access to U.S. government funded databases. One element of this involved the "Crown Jewels Campaign," which targeted public access to the most important and valuable federal databases, including those involving United States Securities and Exchange Commission
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is a federal agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets in the United States...
filings, patents, bills pending before the Congress, medical abstracts and court opinions and statutes, among others.
In 1994, Love began working on the international trade aspects of intellectual property rights, particularly as they related to medical technologies.
In 1996, Love worked with Richard Stallman to create the Union for the Public Domain, which focused its attention on defeating a proposal at a WIPO diplomatic conference to adopt a treaty for the protection of non-copyrighted elements of databases.
In 1997, Robert Weissman and Love worked with the South Africa group to push back against trade pressures from the Clinton Administration, and Vice-President Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
, Jr. in particular, on issues concerning patents rights on pharmaceutical drugs. Love worked with the South African Health authorities when the South Africa Medicines Act was revised in 1997.
In 1997, Love worked with Ralph Nader to push the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an antitrust
Antitrust
The United States antitrust law is a body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are intended to encourage competition in the marketplace. These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both,...
case against Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
for anti-competitive conduct relating to web browsers and other software products running on Windows. Nader and Love later asked several computer manufacturers to offer consumers the choice of Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
or other operating systems, and pressed OMB
OMB
OMB is a three-letter abbreviation which may stand for:* Office of Management and Budget, a group that oversees the activities of federal agencies in the United States* Owner Managed Business, small and medium enterprises...
to consider using its procurement power to require Microsoft and others to use open data formats.
In 1999, Love and several AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
activists and public health group such as MSF
MSF
MSF may refer to:* Mail Summary File , file extension used by Earthlink, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Netscape mail clients to store folder data in Mork.* Marvel Super Heroes vs...
, Health Action International (HAI) and Act Up launched a global campaign to promote the compulsory licensing of patents on medicines for AIDS and other illnesses.
In 2001, Love negotiated with Dr. Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf Khwaja Hamied is a leading Indian scientist who serves as chairman of Cipla, a socially conscious generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935....
, head of Cipla
Cipla
Cipla Limited is a prominent Indian pharmaceutical company, best-known outside its home country for manufacturing low-cost anti-AIDS drugs for HIV-positive patients in developing countries...
, a leading Indian generic drug manufacturer, a $1 per day price for the AIDS treatment regime NVP+D4T+3TC. The "Cipla Offer" made headlines all over the world and motivated Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
and others to call for the creation of the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria. In November 2001, a Wall Street Journal editorial singled out the Consumer Project on Technology for pushing the World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
to adopt the Doha Declaration
Doha Declaration
The November 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health was adopted by the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001 in Doha on November 14, 2001...
on TRIPS and Public Health.
In 2002, at the Barcelona International AIDS conference Love called for the creation of a patent pool
Patent pool
In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of at least two companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology. The creation of a patent pool can save patentees and licensees time and money, and, in case of blocking patents, it may also be the only reasonable method...
for patents on HIV and other essential medicines. In the fall of 2002, Tim Hubbard and Love participated in a radical scenario planning exercise organized by Aventis
Aventis
Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc S.A. merged with Hoechst AG. The merged company was based in Strasbourg, France. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, Aventis was the product of the first transnational merger to combine large...
, the pharmaceutical and life sciences company, and developed proposals to eliminate legal monopolies on new medicines, and to expand support for open science projects. Among the Radical Pharma Scenario proposals were to replace intellectual property obligations in the WTO TRIPS accord and trade agreements with multilateral agreements on funding medical R&D, and to reform the incentive systems by replacing patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
monopolies with cash prizes. Love and Hubbard and also proposed systems of "competitive intermediaries" to manage funding for open science projects. Working with artists and activists such as Alan Toner and Jamie King, in 2002 Love proposed the Blur/Banff model for supporting artists who recorded music.
External links
- Home page of James Love
- His blogs:
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/
- http://www.keionline.org/blogs
- http://twitter.com/jamie_love
- http://jamie.workingagenda.com/blog/