Menu
Contact Us
Subscribe
Menu

ML&P Blog: Our insight into current issues

Medicines Law & Policy periodically will post timely analysis and insight into current events related to intellectual property and innovation policy as they impact on access to medicines. These posts are listed below. We also have a newsletter for those interested in being notified when new articles are posted.

Latest Blog Posts

The last mile: A few suggestions for the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s last two weeks of talks 

Ellen 't Hoen -
This technical briefing note is also available as a PDF here. On 16 April, the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and...
Read more

US Authorisation of Non-Voluntary Use of Patents frequently used for health technologies

Arianna Schouten -
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States prioritised the rapid development of products needed to combat the health crisis.  Rapid product development was pursued...
Read more

European Parliament’s amendments make the Regulation for EU-wide compulsory licensing difficult to use and need to be rolled back

Medicines Law & Policy -
European Parliament legislative resolution of 13 March 2024, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on compulsory...
Read more

Worldwide licensing of pandemic technologies is already current practice. The Pandemic Accord should protect it.

Ellen 't Hoen -
The negotiations for a WHO pandemic accord are still in full swing this week. Talks are taking place behind closed doors, but it is...
Read more

The European Parliament has now explicitly acknowledged the know-how problem too: time to include a workable solution in the draft Pandemic Accord.

Christopher Garrison -
This technical briefing note is also available as a PDF here. We have been calling attention to the problem of sharing know-how necessary for the...
Read more

Intervention at Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, 9th...

Medicines Law & Policy -
The following intervention was delivered by Ellen 't Hoen on 18 March, 2024 Download this statement as a PDF here. Thank you for the opportunity to...
Read more

Something is going terribly wrong with the EU Compulsory Licensing Regulation

Ellen 't Hoen -
This week the European Parliament will vote on amendments to the Commission’s proposed regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on compulsory licensing...
Read more

It is not too late to solve the know-how problem in the WHO Pandemic Accord

Christopher Garrison -
Introduction One of the most important Intellectual Property (IP) problems which the Pandemic Accord negotiators need to solve is now in danger of being completely...
Read more

Written remarks submitted to the OHCHR following the Expert Workshop on the key challenges and new developments in ensuring access to medicines, vaccines and...

Katrina Perehudoff -
This blog was submitted by Dr. Katrina Perehudoff, Law Centre for Health and Rights at the University of Amsterdam, and Medicines Law & Policy,...
Read more

Medicines Law & Policy Intervention at the WHO Pandemic Accord Negotiations

Ellen 't Hoen -
This statement was delivered on 19 February at the World Health Organization in Geneva, on the occasion of the 8th Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to...
Read more

Newsletter

Never miss a post! Sign up for ML&P's newsletter.

Posts by topic

Year-End Wrap-Ups

Load more

Medicines Law & Policy

Medicines Law & Policy releases analysis, policy recommendations and tools to aid practitioners working on universal access to medicines. We strive to provide information that is as accurate as possible, and we welcome and encourage feedback. For comments or questions contact us at: office@medicineslawandpolicy.net.

Never miss a post! Sign up for ML&P's newsletter.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons. You are free to share, with attribution and without changes, for non-commercial purposes.