What if traditional IP mechanisms for protecting and promoting innovation need to be alleviated? The COVID Health crisis revives the national, EU, and international debates on flexibility to patent rights for public interest, including health issues. From waivers to patent rights at stake at the WTO to modernized rules for Compulsory Licensing at the EU level and enhanced national legislation on this matter in many countries, public initiatives are burgeoning and blossoming in this respect. Are these initiatives serving all stakeholders, from member states to researchers, companies, and consumers? For this Session of our Global Digital Encounters, Speakers with a variety of opinions will provide a worldwide picture of “testing borders of IP rights: compulsory licensing and beyond”.
Watch the deliberations carried out by the GDE 31 panel members last November 28th, 2023.
Meet the Panel*
Bruno VANDERMEULEN
IP Director of Impact Licensing Initiative (ILI)
Prof. Dr. jur. Tilman MÜLLER-STOY
Partner at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG. UPC Representative
Wolf MEIER-EWERT
Counsellor, WTO TRIPS Division
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10 сен 2024
