Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures

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Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures

Edited by Haochen Sun · Madhavi Sunder
Cambridge University Press December 2024

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ISBN-13
9781009282383
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2024
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This volume assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from COVID-19. Authored by an international roster of experts, chapters diagnose causes for the inequitable distribution of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines and offer concrete suggestions for reform. From delinking vaccine development from monopoly rights in technology, to enhanced legal requirements under national and international law for sharing publicly funded technologies, to requiring funding from rich nations to former colonies to build local vaccine manufacturing capacity in low and middle-income countries (including those in Africa), this work highlights timely IP reforms that prepare us for the next pandemic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Intellectual property and 'the lost year' of COVID-19 Deaths
Madhavi Sunder and Haochen Sun

Part I. Reconsidering Key Theoretical and Policy Issues:
1. New and heightened public-private quid pro quos: leveraging public support to enhance private technical disclosure
Peter Lee
2. Global medical war chest
Lawrence O. Gostin
3. COVID-19 and boundary-crossing collaboration
Laura G. Pedraza-Fariña
4. Legal paradigms and the politics of global COVID-19 vaccine access
Matthew M. Kavanagh and Renu Singh

Part II. Boosting Low-Income Countries' Capacities for Protecting Public Health:
5. Fostering production of pharmaceutical products in developing countries
William Fisher, Ruth Okediji and Padmashree Gehl Sampath
6. Patent philanthropy
Haochen Sun
7. Beyond traditional IP: addressing regulatory barriers
Cynthia M. Ho
8. Capability approach to developing global health initiatives for equitable access to vaccines
Calvin WL Ho

Part III. Alternative Means of Fighting Pandemics:
9. Planning for pandemic and epidemic-related scarcity of medicines
Sapna Kumar & Ana Santos Rutschman
10. Improving global governance of pandemic response: lessons from COVID-19
Jayashree Watal
11. Compelling trade secret sharing
David S. Levine & Joshua D. Sarnoff
12. Voluntary intellectual property pledges and COVID-19
Jorge L. Contreras

Part IV. Toward Dynamic Protection of Public Health in China, Africa and Latin America:
13. The TRIPS waiver and the global pandemic response
Peter K. Yu, China
14. COVID-19 exclusion, policy contagion, and colonial hangover in Africa
Olufunmilayo Arewa
15. Technology transfer for production of COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America
Kenneth C. Shadlen
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