PHM-Exch> Webinar Invite- Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Implications for Access to Covid19 Medical Products

[Gargeya Telakapalli]

People's Health Movement and Third World Network invite you to webinar

*Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Implications for Access to Covid19
Medical Products*  8th October- 11:30 A.M GMT
*Register Here <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a2Hxr5SJSS28-P5UYD59ow>*

The COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented global public health challenge.
Countries have declared national emergencies, global supply chains have
been disrupted and livelihoods shattered. As global demand outstrips supply
for medical products, many countries, especially developing and least
developed countries, have been scrambling for medical supplies while the
developed countries have leveraged their financial influence to secure
priority access. Efforts towards containing the COVID-19 spread have
brought to light serious concerns about the impact of intellectual property
rights such as patents, industrial designs, copyright and trade secrets on
the availability and affordability of medical products. For instance, in
Italy as ventilator valves were short in supply, a hospital relied on
cheaper 3D printed valves, leading to assertions of potential intellectual
property infringements. As medicines and vaccines are developed to treat or
prevent COVID-19, massive shortages are anticipated leading to inequitable
access. The IP framework, especially patents and trade secrets, is
shadowing the potential to scale-up vaccine production through technology
transfer. Moreover, the very basis for IP in the case of Covid-19 pandemic
is flawed because it is through massive public funding that the research
and manufacture of medical products, especially vaccines, is being carried
out.

Global demand for medical products can only be met with widespread global
production of products needed to contain, treat and prevent COVID-19.
Against this background, the Webinar will discuss IP issues and the impact
on global production and access to Covid 19 medical products from a public
interest perspective.

*8th October- 11:30 A.M GMT*
(5:00 PM Delhi/ 1:30 PM Geneva/ 7:30 AM New York)

*Register:*
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a2Hxr5SJSS28-P5UYD59ow

Speakers:
*Yuan Qiong HU*
Policy Co-coordinator/Senior Legal Advisor, MSF, Access Campaign

*David Levine*
Professor, Elon University School of Law; Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Law
School

*Achal Prabhala*
Coordinator, Accessibsa and Fellow, Shuttleworth Foundation
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