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Compulsory licensing: an effective tool for securing access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing states?
Legal Studies, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 86 - 103
Swansea University Author:
Lowri Davies
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/lst.2022.24
Abstract
A significant issue in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic is the need to enhance developing states’ access to Covid-19 vaccines. The present paper considers the request for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights in relation to Covid-19 technologies and treatments submitted to the World Tra...
| Published in: | Legal Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0261-3875 1748-121X |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59971 |
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A significant issue in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic is the need to enhance developing states’ access to Covid-19 vaccines. The present paper considers the request for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights in relation to Covid-19 technologies and treatments submitted to the World Trade Organization and analyses a key argument against the proposed waiver: that the compulsory licensing provisions set out in the TRIPS Agreement are sufficiently flexible to help states get access to vaccines. The compulsory licensing flexibilities set out in TRIPS, including the amendment to TRIPS in Article 31bis, are evaluated, to explore whether compulsory licensing could be an effective tool in helping developing states to access Covid-19 vaccines. Key issues are explored from a human rights perspective to examine whether a rights-based approach to the compulsory licensing provisions could offer further insights as to how the provisions could be more workable, to enhance access to medicines and vaccines for developing states. |
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| Keywords: |
Intellectual property, TRIPS, compulsory licensing, vaccines, access to medicines, human rights |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Swansea University |
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1 |
| Start Page: |
86 |
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103 |