In response to the great crises of the COVID-19 coronavirus, virtually all new technologies
protected by patent rights have been used in practice from diagnostics, therapeutic, medical …

Pharmaceutical companies, like many other types of companies, are incentivized to create,
manufacture, and distribute new products, in part due to the legal protections of patent law …

For the past several years, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely transformed our world.
However, amid a devastating pandemic and incalculable loss, medical research has offered …

TRIPS IP rights, however, may clash with other goals, including protection of public health
and the human right to health. Controversies persist over how long patents should last and …

Patent protection emerged as one of the most challenging barriers to the access to
medicines, medical equipment, and vaccines as well for the treatment and containment of …

Against the backdrop of COVID-19, this Opinion essay proposes three ways to improve the
European patent system without the need for legislative reform. Each has particular …

Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, a number ofwidely publicized incidents gave rise to
concerns that holders of patents and other intellectual property (IP) rights could hinder the …

As the toll of COVID-19 continues to increase in many countries in the Global South, there
has been a renewed push to address the problem of vaccine scarcity through a waiver of …

The structure of global intellectual property law as incorporated in the World Trade
Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights …

In June 2020, Gilead agreed to provide the USA with 500 000 doses of remdesivir—an
antiviral drug which at that time was percieved to show promise in reducing the recovery …