Negotiation of new international health law on intellectual property, technology transfer, open science and pathogen access and benefit sharing: a textual and contextual analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This original research article reframes new international law and policy developments at the intersections of open science, technology transfer, intellectual property and access and sharing the benefits of biomedical innovation in the context of global pandemics.

Methods

Through textual and contextual analysis, using the lens of national experiences and negotiating positions of one high-income country, Canada, it traces the evolution of legal normative developments from a proposed waiver of aspects of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights through a forum shift to negotiate a new agreement for pandemic preparedness and response (the Pandemic Agreement) at the WHO.

Results

The analysis shows a signif

SUBMITTER: de Beer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581020 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature