Event details

National Meeting of Policymakers on Public Health and Intellectual Property, 17 June, 2019.

Event details

The South Centre and the Egyptian Intellectual Property Office (EGPO) are organizing a national seminar on sharing and exchanging experiences among different policymakers on policy options pursued at the global, regional and national level to make full use of the TRIPS flexibilities to support access to medicines. The seminar will be held at the Pyramisa Suites Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, on 17 June 2019. This seminar will share the experience of negotiations related to IP and access to medicines in the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization, as well as debates in several other international forums. It will also address key themes for the contemporary intellectual property and public health agenda in Egypt and around the world, including interpretations of TRIPS relating to patents of second use, polymorphs, Markush formulas, etc.

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