Professor Sean Flynn Chaired Event on "A WTO Waiver for Intellectual Property for COVID?"
Professor Sean Flynn chaired an event on A WTO Waiver for Intellectual Property for COVID? on November 19, 2020. The event was co-sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association, Committee on International Intellectual Property, PIJIP and the Texas A&M University Center for Law and Intellectual Property. The meeting surveyed the proposal by India and South Africa for a temporary waiver of certain TRIPS obligations on copyright, industrial designs, patents, and the protection of undisclosed information in relation to the “prevention, containment or treatment” of COVID-19. Speakers included:
- United States Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Representing Illinois' 9th Congressional District
- Mustaqeem de Gama, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of South Africa
- Burcu Kilic, Research Director, Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program
- Simon Lester, Associate Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, CATO
- Fred Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law
- Sharon Sandeen, Director, IP Institute and Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline
- Josh Sarnoff, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
- Peter Yu, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University
A video of the event will be posted shortly on PIJIP’s Youtube channel, with a link posted to the event page [link]