Is Intellectual Property the COVID-19 Bad Guy? Lessons We Could Learn from the Pandemic

At the time the COVID-19 pandemic was declared there was no vaccine and other medical products were insufficient to meet demands. At the time intellectual property was considered a limitation to an effective pandemic response and the World Trade Organization considered a waiver of intellectual property addressed by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic and TRIPS waiver is that given enough time sufficient medical products will be delivered, albeit there remain some complicated delivery challenges and vaccine hesitancy issues. This column addresses the moment before that medical product saturation and the inherent limitation imposed by industry policies. The column concludes that the private sectors' motivating factors need to be integrated into the design of global public health pandemic responses from the start.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Journal of law and medicine - 30(2023), 3 vom: 09. Dez., Seite 538-554

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lawson, Charles [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

COVID-19
Industry policy
Intellectual property
Journal Article
Pandemics
TRIPS waiver

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368220796