Compulsory licensing of trade secrets: ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines via involuntary technology transfer

Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicine in Developing Countries

Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine

We look at compulsory licensing of intellectual property as remedy for anti-competitive practice. We identify aspects of intellectual property that warrants a different remedy from those using general definitions and remedies for essential facility. Based on the analysis, we present a characterisation of optimal compulsory licensing for a simple market. ∗Department of Economics, University of A...

Ensuring access to vaccines without financial barriers: view of consumers.

Reforming the US vaccine-financing system is a promising means of increasing vaccine coverage among US children; however, it is a significant undertaking that calls for creativity and cooperation by a diverse group of stakeholders. In this commentary, we present a consumer’s viewpoint on the vaccine-financing recommendations of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). Because immunizatio...

Finding flaws: the limitations of compulsory licensing for improving access to medicines--an international comparison.

Secrets of the Trade

President Obama has discovered first-hand how difficult wrangling the interests of a dozen nations can be. For six years, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been in negotiations and might prove to be Obama’s crowning foreign policy achievement. If the 12-nation Free Trade Agreement (FTA) passes, it will shape the future of economic development in the Asia-Pacific and cement the U.S. as the...