Title: Best and worst practices for limitations and exceptions to patent rights
Date: Thursday, 17 October 2024
Time: 13:30 CEST to 15:00 CEST
Location: Room B, WIPO
Registration link: https://wipo-int.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mtf-6vqz0jGdWIE2AObIjgN86Xuy4yqaKi
Conveners: Innovarte and Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
On the margins of the Thirty-Sixth Session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP), this briefing will examine state practices involving compulsory licensing of biomedical inventions, data, cell lines, and know-how including the application of relevant exceptions in articles 30, 31, 39, 40 and 44 of the WTO TRIPS Agreement. This event is hybrid. Lunch will be provided at 13:00 CEST and the event will commence at 13:30 CEST.
The recording of this event can be found here: https://wipo-int.zoom.us/rec/share/fa7UGOHpMSMsWikcYWWvkpNjMT_FnPY50_oq4fPp3wdmaMUmSDDmexSJ7LG68m8b.cHsKDxDPLgo8Pns0?startTime=1729164348000
Panelists
James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). James Love’s presentation can be found here:
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Ellen ‘t Hoen, LLM PhD, Director, Medicines Law & Policy (ML&P). Ellen ‘t Hoen’s presentation can be found here: WIPO-SCPsideevent-17Oct2024-Ellenthoen smaller-compressed
Luis Villarroel, Director, Innovarte. Luis Villarroel’s presentation can be found here:
Respondents
Komal Kalha, Deputy Director, Intellectual Property & Trade Policy International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Viviana Munoz Tellez, PhD. Coordinator of the Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Programme, South Centre
