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 … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status …

to humankind. How can the patent system help scientists, commercial enterprises and civil society at large to realize … communities?It has been argued that new patent disclosure requirements related to genetic resources and traditional knowledge are … decides to introduce new patent disclosure requirements, a key challenge is to establish a coherent legal and policy framework …

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 …

-modified (GM) seed technology. In particular, when courts determine patent damages based on the hypothetical negotiation method … limited affirmative defense of an implied license due to the patent’s status as a de facto standard essential patent. To be … classified as a de facto standard essential patent, the farmer must prove three elements that reflect the peculiarities of GM …

liberty to state interests, without necessarily making the world safer …