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Promoting Jordan's use of compulsory licensing during the pandemic

Barqawi, Laila - 2023

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TRIPS flexibilities and access to medicines : an evaluation of barriers to employing compulsory licenses for patented pharmaceuticals at the WTO

Wong, Anna S. Y.; Cole, Clarke B.; Kohler, Jillian Clare - 2022

without the patent owner's authorization by issuing a compulsory license (CL). In the pharmaceuticals space, governments have … historically employed compulsory licenses to compel originator manufacturers to license their patents to generic manufacturers … refrain from issuing compulsory licenses. A survey of members' domestic compulsory license legislation finds that virtually …

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The WTO TRIPS decision on COVID-19 vaccines : what is needed to implement it?

Correa, Carlos María; Syam, Nirmalya - 2022

the COVID-19 pandemic that are manufactured under a compulsory license or government use authorization to other developing …

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Twenty years after Doha : an analysis of the use of the TRIPS Agreement's public health flexibilities in India

Abbas, Muhammad Zaheer - 2022

The World Trade Organization (WTO) linked intellectual property protection with trade. The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), however, included a number of public health flexibilities in order to provide latitude to the Member States to...

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Analysis of COVID-related patents for antibodies and vaccines

Santhanam, Kausalya - 2023

This paper provides an analysis of patents covering selected antibodies and vaccines used in the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. The aim of the report is to support national patent offices and interested parties in developing countries with information that can serve as guidance for the...

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Lessons from India's implementation of Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health

Batra, Nanditta - 2022

The major bone of contention between the developed and developing countries in the TRIPS negotiations was patents for pharmaceuticals. The US-led developed countries bloc argued in favour of patents for pharmaceuticals amidst opposition from Brazil, India and other countries. Ample evidence,...

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Compulsory licensing as a remedy against excessive pricing of life-saving medicines

Kianzad, Behrang - 2024

The COVID-19 crisis intensified decade-long debates on the interaction between intellectual property rights (IPRs), competition law and access to affordable life-saving treatments and vaccines. Compulsory licensing of patented medicines is a tried-and-tested method to expand access, particularly...

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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software

Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002

Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...

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Competition and innovation in a technology setting software duopoly

Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2003

Recently the software industry has experienced fundamental changes in market structure through the entry of open source competitors, e.g. Linux's entry into the operating systems market. In a simple model we examine the effects of such a change in market structure from monopoly to duopoly under...

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Open source software, closed source software or both : impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights

Engelhardt, Sebastian von (contributor); … - 2008

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...

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