Knowledge Commune, in collaboration with the Justice Party, successfully mobilized the members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea to introduce this resolution. Resolution urging temporary waiver of certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to tackle COVID-19 pandemic Date: 4 April 2021 Bill No.: 2109314 Proposed …
Knowledge Commune mobilized legislators to propose a patent law amendment to make clear that medical treatment is excluded from patentable subject matter. The amendment was introduced in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea on 3 March 2021. The amendment also aims to ban technologies seriously harmful to the environment from patenting. Medical …
🔶 Date and Time: 24 March (Wednesday) 6-8 pm KST 🔶 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81971276211?pwd=NEsvTHE3VDNZQkxGaTFUaExGNmpRUT09 (Simultaneous interpretation between Korean and English is provided) 🔶 Moderators: Heesob Nam (Knowledge Commune), Haejoo Chung (Korea University) 🔶 Speaker: Professor Thomas Pogge Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of …
🔶 Date and Time: 10 March (Wednesday) 6-8 pm KST, 8-10 pm Melbourne time 🔶 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89744813191?pwd=eVVON0I3NlVvam02UjArSElyTFN1UT09 (Simultaneous interpretation between Korean and English is provided) 🔶 Moderators: Heesob Nam (Knowledge Commune), Haejoo Chung (Korea University) 🔶 Speaker: Professor Susan Sell Susan K. Sell is a RegNet Professor. She earned her PhD in Political Science …
Abstract Presumption of negligence in finding liability of patent infringements was introduced in the Korea Patent Act of 1974 by imitating the Japanese Patent Act amendment of 1959. Interestingly, the Japanese amendment was motivated by the UK Patent Act of 1949 which exempted the monetary liability of an innocent infringer. This was a misunderstanding of …
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us an unprecedented impact in all dimensions of our lives. To tackle this situation, scientists and civil activists around the globe worked hard to bring an eventual cure to this pandemic – vaccines. Although the global community, along with the WHO, has fought for public production and equitable distribution of …
COVID-19 brings about another inequality – vaccine inequality. As evidently revealed by figures of “39 million v. 25“, 39 million vaccine doses had been administered in high-income countries, low-income countries have been given only 25 doses. The Director General of the World Health Organization called this “a catastrophic moral failure”, but the reality is the …
Intellectual property system purports to promote technological innovation and transfer of technology. However, the existence of IP system does not automatically guarantee the innovation and transfer of technology. Depending on the design and operation of IP system, it can either promote or hinder technological innovation. The transfer and dissemination of technology pledged by WTO members …
In Olanzapine patent disputes, the Supreme Court ruled as we claimed. See, decision in Lilly Korea v. Hanmi and decision in Lilly Korea v. Myung-In (all in Korean). The Court did not recognize that generic companies are liable for the reduction of upper price limit of patented product, Zyprexa (Olanzapine) even when the reduction was …
Piracy is a political term used to label to every unauthorized use of copyrighted content as “illegal looting,” and to justify strengthened copyright enforcement . The copyright industries, including MPAA, BSA and IFPI, have estimated huge economic harms caused by piracy. Yet some literature show piracy having a positive effect on legal purchases of cultural …