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"This volume critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It broadens our understanding of the implications of intellectual property protection for both the development and distribution of essential technologies such as vaccines"--
Sommario
Introduction: Intellectual property and 'the lost year' of COVID-19 Deaths Madhavi Sunder and Haochen Sun; Part I. Reconsidering Key Theoretical and Policy Issues: 1. New and heightened public-private quid pro quos: leveraging public support to enhance private technical disclosure Peter Lee; 2. Global medical war chest Lawrence O. Gostin; 3. COVID-19 and boundary-crossing collaboration Laura G. Pedraza-Fariña; 4. Legal paradigms and the politics of global COVID-19 vaccine access Matthew M. Kavanagh and Renu Singh; Part II. Boosting Low-Income Countries' Capacities for Protecting Public Health: 5. Fostering production of pharmaceutical products in developing countries William Fisher, Ruth Okediji and Padmashree Gehl Sampath; 6. Patent philanthropy Haochen Sun; 7. Beyond traditional IP: addressing regulatory barriers Cynthia M. Ho; 8. Capability approach to developing global health initiatives for equitable access to vaccines Calvin WL Ho; Part III. Alternative Means of Fighting Pandemics: 9. Planning for pandemic and epidemic-related scarcity of medicines Sapna Kumar & Ana Santos Rutschman; 10. Improving global governance of pandemic response: lessons from COVID-19 Jayashree Watal; 11. Compelling trade secret sharing David S. Levine & Joshua D. Sarnoff; 12. Voluntary intellectual property pledges and COVID-19 Jorge L. Contreras; Part IV. Toward Dynamic Protection of Public Health in China, Africa and Latin America: 13. The TRIPS waiver and the global pandemic response Peter K. Yu, China; 14. COVID-19 exclusion, policy contagion, and colonial hangover in Africa Olufunmilayo Arewa; 15. Technology transfer for production of COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America Kenneth C. Shadlen.
Info autore
Haochen Sun is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Sun specializes in intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. His opinions about intellectual property and technology law have appeared in media outlets such as BBC News, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Sunder is a widely published and influential scholar of intellectual property law, law and technology, women's human rights, and international development. She has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell Law School.
Riassunto
This volume critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It broadens our understanding of the implications of intellectual property protection for both the development and distribution of essential technologies such as vaccines.
Prefazione
Critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
