National Workshop on Examination of Pharmaceutical Patents: Developing a Public Health Perspective, 18 June, 2019
Event details
The South Centre and the Egyptian Intellectual Property Office (EGPO) are organizing a national workshop on examination of pharmaceutical patents from a public health perspective. The workshop will be held at the Pyramisa Suites Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, on 18 June 2019. The workshop will present analysis of international experiences and exchange of information on examination policies and practices concerning pharmaceutical patent applications, from a public health perspective. The workshop will respond to growing concerns about the proliferation of patents that protect minor, and in some cases obvious, variants of existing drugs or processes (such as changes in the drug formulation, salts, esters, ethers, isomers, polymorphs of known molecules, combinations of a known drug with other known drugs).
Training and other supporting material
- Workshop Agenda
- List of Speakers
- Guidelines for the examination of pharmaceutical patents: developing a public health perspective
- Access to Medicines and Intellectual Property Rights: Global problem, international context, challenges and solutions_PasswordRequired
- Typical claims in Biotech patents_PasswordRequired
- Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay
- Guidelines on Patentability and Access to Medicines
- Implementing Pro-Competitive Criteria for the Examination of Pharmaceutical Patents
- Tackling the Proliferation of Patents: How to Avoid Undue Limitations to Competition and the Public Domain
- Access to Medicines: Experiences with Compulsory Licenses and Government Use – The Case of Hepatitis C