The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS … surveillance, tracking, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. A possible solution is a TRIPS waiver of the implementation …, application and enforcement for the prevention, containment or treatment of COVID-19. This comment addresses the ways that TRIPS …

outbreak. Furthermore, it elaborates on patent-related policy options provided by the TRIPS Agreement, and WTO Members …COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since … then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and …

the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent … stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization …

landmark Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), but also including more recent free trade … discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

While the recent WTO agreement allowing developing countries to import life-saving drugs by bypassing patent laws is … beneficial, a majority of the drugs used to combat epidemics are off-patent or not patented in many developing countries …

how, and the extent to which a precautionary approach could be crystallized in the intellectual property (IP) patent …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

The paper critically analyses the various TRIPS provisions relevant to patent law. Topics covered include the … relationship between the TRIPs agreement and other intellectual property treaties, patentable subject matter, patentability … requirements, scope of protection, transfer and (voluntary and compulsory) licensing, exemptions, and patent term …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

India's amendment to her patent regime in 2005 to introduce pharmaceutical product patents attracted unprecedented … away their exclusive rights, civil society activists decried the new product patent regime, fearing that it would cause … steep hikes in the price of life saving drugs. This politicization of patent law produced some interesting results; most …