The European Commission has recently announced its intention to launch a call for evidence and public consultation on a potential new EU regulation concerning the compulsory licensing of patents. This ...

Vietnam's Ministry of Health is drafting a circular on compulsory licensing for pharmaceutical patents. From the view of protecting and promoting innovation in the industry, it is worthwhile to ...

The EU aims to harmonize patent protection rules and flexibilities with a layer on top of national rules. This is in line with long-term efforts by the EU institutions to harmonize patent rules and ...

If profits are the carrot, compulsory licensing is the stick in the unfolding drama to ensure adequate supplies of oseltamivir throughout the world in an attempt to mitigate an avian flu pandemic. In ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Robust safeguards are built into the India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to fully preserve India's policy autonomy on compulsory ...

Pharmaceutical patents are a major contributor to high medicine prices, costs that many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) struggle to afford. For WTO members, patent regulation is constrained ...