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The TRIPS Flexibilities Database

The TRIPS Flexibilities Database contains instances when authorities have invoked, planned to invoke, or have been asked to invoke a TRIPS flexibility for public health reasons, in particular to assure access to medicines. The database tracks instances from 2001, the year in which the World Trade Organization adopted the Doha Declaration. It includes cases from low, middle, and high-income countries, and incorporates instances that are both executed and instances that are, pending, not executed or suspended.

It is a useful resource demonstrating that these flexibilities have been widely used to access medicines.

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Blogs referencing the TRIPS Flexibilities Database

Updated TRIPS Flexibilities Database

Ellen 't Hoen -
In January 2023, a number of cystic-fibrosis patient organisations asked the governments of Brazil, India, South Africa and Ukraine to invoke compulsory licensing and...

TRIPS, technology transfer and access to pandemic countermeasures: What the WHO  Pandemic Treaty must...

Ellen 't Hoen -
The scrambling for access to Covid-19 vaccines by developing countries has reignited the debate on the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...

TRIPS Council to discuss IP and the public interest in the context of Covid-19

Ellen 't Hoen -
The search for new treatments and vaccines needed to respond to the Covid-19 outbreak has laid bare some key issues around intellectual property (IP)...

Uganda tells ARIPO: No more patents for pharmaceuticals

Ellen 't Hoen -
Uganda has notified the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) that pharmaceutical inventions are not eligible for patentability in the country, Managing IP reported. With...

Corbyn’s Compulsory Licenses. Will they work?

Ellen 't Hoen -
On 24 September, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour party, announced a series of measures to bring medicines pricing in check and to...

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MedsPaL Patent and Licensing Database

MedsPaL provides information on the patent and licensing status of selected HIV, hepatitis C and tuberculosis medicines in low- and middle-income countries. It is a project of the Medicines Patent Pool.

Patent Opposition Database

A project of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign, this is a tool that supports those interested in filing patent oppositions or wishing to learn where oppositions have been filed.

Medicines Law & Policy

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