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Compulsory licensing is a practice that allows a third party to produce or use a patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner. The practice may be implemented to ensure patent ...

A US-based trade group wants to see the United States Trade Representative (USTR) pursue stricter limits on the ability of countries to bypass patent protection. In its Special 301 Submission 2015, ...

The compulsory license mechanism is broken and will not bring drug access to the world's poorest nations. It's time to consider another option—a tax levied on patents—to fund drugs for developing ...

Biopharma companies can minimise the threat of compulsory licensing by taking strategic steps that benefit both business and patients, says April Abele Isaacson of Kilpatrick Townsend Even though the ...

US, EU and Japanese pharmaceutical industry associations lambasted the European’s Commission proposal to establish a compulsory licensing (CL) scheme for drugs and vaccines in an emergency, asserting ...

Compulsory licensing has been widely suggested as a legal mechanism for bypassing patents to introduce lower-cost generic antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Previous studies found ...

After compulsory licenses were pursued for erlotinib, letrozole, and doxcetaxel in Thailand, there were clear benefits in terms of reducing drug costs and improving access to treatments for patients ...

We live in a world where progress and the public welfare are stymied by copyright and patent laws that grant extended exclusivity to the owners of intellectual property (“IP”). To pick just one ...

With the next Supreme Court term beginning in a few weeks we all need to come to terms with the fact that the U.S. has a compulsory licensing system, which is truly ironic. Trade missions, trade ...

Very few topics in international intellectual property have been as controversial as compulsory licenses. While the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) sets ...