PRIVATE PATENTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PRIVATE PATENTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
This publication would not have been possible without the
input and help of many.
I am grateful to Health Action International (HAI) who gave
this project a home and to the Open Society Foundations for
the financial support, without which this publication would not have
been possible.
I would like to thank the following people for sharing information
with me and for responding to my email queries: Carlos Correa,
Yuanqiong Hu, Celine Grillon, Leena Menghaney, Andew Hill, Esteban
Burrone, Isabelle Andrieux-Meyer, Jennifer Cohn, James Arkinstall and
Que Mai Do. I thank the International Dispensary Association and
UNICEF for sharing information on medicines procurement. I would
also like to thank David Banta and Pascale Boulet for critically reviewing
earlier drafts of the manuscript. I would like to specially mention the
archives of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), which are open to
anyone who wants to dig into the wealth of information in the field of
intellectual property and health technologies KEI has collected over the
years.
I am grateful to Tim Reed and his colleagues from HAI for their
continuous support throughout the project.
I am deeply thankful to Kaitlin Mara whose fabulous editing and
research skills greatly improved the text.
While I have benefitted from the input and help from many, all
mistakes are entirely my own.
Ellen ’t Hoen
January 2016