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 …
🔶 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 …
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 …
The following statement was released on June 3, 2012 by tens of civil society organizations including Knowledge Commune. On May 29, 2020, the World Health Organization called governments, non-governmental organizations, scientists, researchers, and civil societies for a solidarity to action for equitable global access to COVID-19 health technologies. We endorse and welcome the WHO’s Solidarity …
Abstract In order to implement the Korea-US FTA, the drug approval-patent linking system was introduced in the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act on March 15, 2015. Five-years implementation experience has provoked discussion for reforming the linkage system, and the government-led discussion focuses on procedural reform and the problems revealed in the operation of the system. However, since …
The linkage between patent status and drug approval process consists of two elements: notification and prohibition. The notification element refers to a mechanism in which a patentee is notified of the application of marketing approval of a generic product. The prohibition element refers to a mechanism in which a marketing approval of a generic product …