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Compulsory licensing of trade secrets: ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines via involuntary technology transfer [PDF]
This paper considers how vaccine technology to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic can be made available to increase the production of vaccines.
Olga Gurgula, J. Hull
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In December 2019, COVID-19, a novel strain of the SARS-2 Virus, appeared in Wuhan, China. Within a year, over ninety million people had been infected and two million had died.
Padmanabhan A.
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The COVID-19 pandemic impacts the world of patents as countries prepare their legal framework to ease the process of compulsory licensing. Some like India and South Africa even went further by proposing a suspension for patents needed to combat COVID-19 ...
Muhammad Ardiansyah Arifin
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Access to medicines after TRIPS: Is compulsory licensing an effective mechanism to lower drug prices? A review of the existing evidence [PDF]
While Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was expected to hike up prices of patented medicines, there was no consensus on its likely final impact on access, because the agreement housed instruments to address this challenge. For
Urias E, Ramani S.
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A significant issue in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic is the need to enhance developing states’ access to Covid-19 vaccines. The present paper considers the request for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights in relation to Covid-19 ...
Lowri Davies
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The purpose of the article is to analyze certain aspects of legal regulation related to the implementation of compulsory licensing mechanisms and related mechanisms for restricting the rights of copyright holders. The relevance of the issues discussed in
E. I. Pazemova
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Legal Nature of Compulsory Licensing under Patent Law: Regulatory Measure or Expropriation? [PDF]
Extensive research has been conducted on expropriation of foreign investment. However, different methods of expropriating intellectual property of foreign investors have yet to be shed light on by legal scholars.
Mirghasem Jafarzade, Soroosh Falahati
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'No-One Is Safe until Everyone Is Safe' – Patent Waiver, Compulsory Licensing and COVID-19
Recentmonths have seen intensified global calls for an intellectual propertywaiver of COVID-19 related vaccines, treatments and related products.Where one side of the debate elevates Intellectual Property Rights as on obstacle to affordable and ...
B. Kianzad, J. Wested
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How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree [PDF]
We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy.
Fackler, Thomas A. +3 more
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The impact of intellectual property rights in particular patent relating to public health has posed numerous challenges faced by developing countries who are members of World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Kamini Shanmugaiah
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