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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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The TRIPS waiver proposal: An urgent measure to expand access to the COVID-19 vaccines
De Menezes, Henrique Zeferino - 2021
Despite multilateral commitments and political statements of solidarity and cooperation to guarantee the availability and access to COVID-19 vaccines (and other relevant technologies for control and treatment), the scenario after the beginning of vaccination is marked by the deepening of vaccine...
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The human right to science: From fragmentation to comprehensive implementation?
Larsen, Peter Bille; Pamintuan, Marjorie - 2022
In times when the role of science in society is more debated than ever in polarized, politicized and partial terms, what is the role for the human right to science and rights-based approaches? The right to science remains poorly understood and neglected in both national and global human rights...
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The Global Digital Compact: Opportunities and challenges for developing countries in a fragmented digital space
Correa, Carlos María; Ido, Vitor Henrique Pinto; … - 2023
The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...
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The intersection between intellectual property, public health and access to climate-related technologies
Batista, Lívia Regina - 2023
recognition of intellectual property rights as an important means for the promotion of technological innovation, and the required …
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Neglected dimension of the inventive step as applied to pharmaceutical and biotechnological products: The case of Sri Lanka's patent law
Fernando, Ruwan - 2023
Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed statutory guidelines or judicial decisions to provide any framework for the assessment of inventive step in Sri Lanka. The current statutory definition is...
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Developing biotechnology innovations through traditional knowledge
Jusoh, Sufian - 2009
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Innovation and the global expansion of intellectual property rights: Unfulfilled promises
Correa, Carlos María - 2016
innovation will be boosted - do not match the reality. The effects of high standards of protection - as those mandated under the …]ntellectual property is …a social contrivance purportedly designed to increase welfare, by supposedly enhancing innovation (though… it may … little to promote local innovation and economic development. The scenario for innovation in the pharmaceutical sector clearly …
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the developing nations: Challenges and road map
Asghar, Sohail; Rextina, Gulmina; Ahmed, Tanveer; … - 2020
Technological advancements and the amalgamation of several fields, including Advanced Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) have brought the world on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). This...
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