Gorlin Group

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The Gorlin Group describes itself as 'A Washington-based consultancy with more than twenty years of experience providing strategic advice and analysis on the nexus of intellectual property and international trade issues'[1].

On their website, The Gorlin Group advertise the following services[2]...

  • Industry Coalition Management - 'cross-industry coalition to provide international advocacy in support of full patentability of biotechnology inventions'.
  • U.S. Government Representation - 'Assisted in gaining U.S. Government support and intervention'.
  • Strategy Development and Implementation - 'Worked with local pharmamceutical industry representatives to enact legislation and regulations to gain TRIPS/FTA-level intellectual property protection in key countries'.
  • Assistance in New Product Launches
  • Optimization of Market Exclusivity - 'Developed TRIPS-based arguments and strategy and provided advice to leverage intellectual property protection'.
  • Assistance in Legal Defense - 'developing TRIPS-based rebuttals to public policy compulsory license applications'.
  • Public Diplomacy - 'At client's request, provided economic and commercial rationales for improved intellectual property protection to key foreign government officials'.
  • Ongoing Analysis of International Intellectual Property-related Developments

People

Gorlin has also served in a number of senior positions in both the Executive and Legislative branches of Government. senior international economist in the Department of the Treasury and in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (1972-1977), senior economic advisor to Senator Jacob K. Javits (1977-1981) - where he headed the Senator's economic staff and served as the Senator's liaison with the New York business and banking communities, Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1981), and Senior Economic Advisor to the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (1982).

Clients

In 2008, The Gorlin Group report a 'partial' list of their past and current clients as[4]...

References

  1. The Gorlin Group Home Page Accessed 20th March 2008
  2. The Gorlin Group Services Accessed 20th March 2008
  3. The Gorlin Group Jacques J Gorlin Accessed 20th March 2008
  4. The Gorlin Group Clients Accessed 20th March 2008