20.500.12556/RUL-159704 A double-edged-sword approach to fighting pandemics: patent waivers and incentives to innovate Although continents recently experienced an apocalyptic pandemic that posed a mortal danger to millions of people, a new, even deadlier pandemic could soon emerge… The paper seeks to address the role played by patent waivers and current contractual arrangements in the pharmaceutical industry in addressing the dangers caused by the current and future pandemics. The process of waiving patents is explored where it is argued that it sadly cannot amount to the knight in shining armour that everyone has been expecting. Due to the lack of coordination, the tremendously long process, and the potential block in innovation arising from pharmaceutical companies having smaller incentives, more attention must be paid to other alternative institutional solutions. Drawing from the economics literature on innovation in the pharmaceutical sector, a conceptual framework is proposed for improved legal intervention in the case of patent waivers in international intellectual property law instruments. In addition, the paper provides a comparative law and economics treatment of current patent waivers in US, EU, and international law instruments. pandemic innovations intelectual property innovation patent waivers incentives pandemija inovacije intelektualna lastnina true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-07-18 15:12:49 2024-07-18 15:16:35 2024-07-21 03:18:52 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 239-278 iss. 3 Vol. 54 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 346 2545-384X 10.31743/recl.15503 169281539 A_Double-Edged-Sword_Approach_to_Fighting_Pandemics_Patent_Waivers_and_Incentives_to_Innovate.pdf A_Double-Edged-Sword_Approach_to_Fighting_Pandemics_Patent_Waivers_and_Incentives_to_Innovate.pdf 1 AD99C9C4508D66982CA06147B21F7F14 a5825bbff5b1f866c32dc2a8c8aea2eac8e2803909b6363a9ef0e83356019273 b874a36a-4507-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187842 https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/recl/article/view/15503 0 c3f5e489-4507-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187843 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0