Title: Best and worst practices for limitations and exceptions to patent rights
Date: Thursday, 17 October 2024
Time: 13:00 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.
Panelists
James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
Ellen ‘t Hoen, LLM PhD, Director, Medicines Law & Policy (ML&P)
Luis Villarroel, Director, Innovarte
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
