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1. Introduction.
How relevant are concerns about intellectual property rights causing problems for...
Welcome to Medicines Law & Policy’s end of the year blog, our highly biased annual overview of memorable medicines law and policy events.
January
At the...
The Medicines Patent Pool, a UN-backed organisation whose mission is to expand access to essential medicines around the world, today announced its first agreement...
This week the European Parliament will vote on amendments to the Commission’s proposed regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on compulsory licensing...
A earlier version of this commentary was published on 28 November 2021 by Barron's.
This is a time of missed opportunities. This week, trade ministers...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council will meet on 10-11 July. On the agenda is the review...
On 21 February, the Dutch Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation (PAF) took the bold step to take AbbVie to court, claiming the company’s pricing policy had...
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1. Introduction
Scaling-up production of new vaccines to provide many billions of doses on a time-scale...