Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19
Jorge L. Contreras, Michael B. Eisen, Ariel B. Ganz, Mark A. Lemley, Jenny Molloy, Diane M. Peters, Frank Tietze
Abstract
Voluntary pledges to make intellectual property broadly available to address urgent public health crises can overcome administrative and legal hurdles faced by more elaborate legal arrangements such as patent pools and achieve greater acceptance than governmental compulsory licensing.
Topics & Concepts
Intellectual propertyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Business2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Property (philosophy)Public healthLaw and economicsPolitical scienceLawVirologyMedicineEconomicsInfectious disease (medical specialty)EpistemologyOutbreakDiseaseNursingPathologyPhilosophyBiomedical Ethics and RegulationIntellectual Property and PatentsBiotechnology and Related Fields