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Discussions of a waiver by the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding certain intellectual property protections for prevention, containment and treatment of COVID-19 have once again put a spotlight ...

The compulsory license mechanism is broken and will not bring drug access to the world's poorest nations. It's time to consider another option—a tax levied on patents—to fund drugs for developing ...

Biopharma companies can minimise the threat of compulsory licensing by taking strategic steps that benefit both business and patients, says April Abele Isaacson of Kilpatrick Townsend Even though the ...

For example, in Thailand, introduction of generic medications was delayed for 1 year from the time compulsory licenses were approved. 32 The reason for this was that some patent-holding companies ...