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Stumbling Over Trips: The International Intellectual Property Waiver Petition And The U.S. Executive, Jordan Paradise, Christina Conroy
Stumbling Over Trips: The International Intellectual Property Waiver Petition And The U.S. Executive, Jordan Paradise, Christina Conroy
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This article examines the relationship among intellectual property (IP) law protections; United States (U.S.) and international law and policy; and the actualization of diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines in the time of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Two key international treaties that relate to IP law--The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (Doha Declaration) - establish international norms for the protection of IP. Core aspects of each of these treaties are described along with the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and concepts of compulsory licensing. As a result …
Stumbling Over Trips: The International Intellectual Property Waiver Petition And The U.S. Executive, Jordan Paradise, Christina Conroy
Stumbling Over Trips: The International Intellectual Property Waiver Petition And The U.S. Executive, Jordan Paradise, Christina Conroy
Faculty Publications & Other Works
This article examines the relationship among intellectual property (IP) law protections; United States (U.S.) and international law and policy; and the actualization of diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines in the time of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Two key international treaties that relate to IP law--The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (Doha Declaration) - establish international norms for the protection of IP. Core aspects of each of these treaties are described along with the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and concepts of compulsory licensing. As a result …
Confronting Intellectual Property Nationalism, Cynthia M. Ho
Confronting Intellectual Property Nationalism, Cynthia M. Ho
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Stories about nations engaging in vaccine (and medical) nationalism by hoarding limited COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are widespread, but there is a hidden phenomenon that has exacerbated vaccine nationalism and prolonged the pandemic: intellectual property nationalism or “IP nationalism.” This Article coins and explains this term and highlights its negative impacts. Essentially, some nations, primarily of the Global North, are hoarding essential knowledge protected by intellectual property (IP). This Article argues that IP nationalism has contributed to millions of unnecessary deaths and limited the growth of the global economy. Meanwhile, countries and pharmaceutical companies obscure the role of IP nationalism …