Compulsory Licenses: The Authors Reply [PDF]
Randall Kuhn +2 more
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Improving Global Public Health: Responsiveness to Public Interest Considerations in Intellectual Property Law [PDF]
Over the past few years the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights recognized the growing concern over an imbalance between intellectual property and public interest.
Maciej Barczewski, Sebastian Sykuna
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“Trade-Related Aspects” and “Public Interest” in the TRIPS Agreement (WTO)
The article appears to be attempt to decipher such notions as “trade – related” aspects of IPR and “public interest” in The TRIPS Agreement. It is particularly striking that this article reveals that TRIPS negotiators, representing both developed and ...
V. V. Pirogova
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The WTO and the Covid‐19 “Vaccine Apartheid”: Big Pharma and the Minefield of Patents
Unequal access to vaccines for the Covid-19 pandemic, also referred to as “vaccine apartheid,” has marginalized low-income countries again. In October 2020, India and South Africa proposed a temporary waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement
Stéphane Paquin +1 more
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Lessons Learned from Philip Morris V. Uruguay Regarding the Approaches Taken in the Investment Protection Treaties of Iran towards Expropriation of Intellectual Property [PDF]
IntroductionIn the field of intellectual property rights, host states’ policies, and accordingly, the approach of the relevant treaty towards expropriation and intellectual property rights play a key role when separating expropriation from regulatory ...
Soroosh Falahati, Mirghasem Jafarzade
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Compulsory licensing is a statutorily created nonexclusive license by the competent authority granted to a third party to make, use, or sell an invention, where remuneration is paid to the right holder and the right holder maintains his legal intellectual property rights.
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Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines
Part 1 – Legal study 1 INTRODUCTION 9 -- 2 THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR: TRENDS, PRACTICES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEGAL AND GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK 12 -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION .12 -- 2.2 KEY STAKEHOLDERS & INNOVATION TRENDS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR 12 -- 2.3 CHARACTERISTICS RELEVANT LEGAL FRAMEWORK PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR 14 -- 2.4 COSTS OF R&D, BUSINESS ...
Van Zimmeren, Esther +10 more
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Welfare effects of compulsory licensing [PDF]
This paper derives necessary and sufficient conditions for compulsory licensing to increase consumer surplus and total welfare, taking into account both static (technology transfer) and dynamic (innovation) effects. When the risk-free rate is low, compulsory licensing is shown unambiguously to increase consumer surplus.
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Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine [PDF]
Abstract We consider compulsory licensing of intellectual property as a remedy for anti-competitive practices. We identify aspects of intellectual property that could warrant a different remedy from those developed for access to physical essential facilities.
Aoki, Reiko, Small, John
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THE THEORY OF ESSENTIAL FACILITIES. THE PRINCIPLE OF ACCESS TO INVENTION IN CASE OF ABUSIVE REFUSAL TO LICENSE [PDF]
Essential facilities designate specific inputs which are essential for the production of other downstream goods. Inputs are situated upstream and so are eligible for intellectual property protection.
Irina CUCER LISNIC
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