South Centre and African Union capacity building for African countries on the effective use of TRIPS flexibilities to protect public health, 18-19 December 2019, Cape Town
Event details
Progress in health is essential to the achievement of the Agenda 2030 and African aspirations for 2063 as agreed by the Assembly of the African Union. The Agenda 2030 includes a commitment to “provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all.” The objective of the seminar is to increase the institutional capacity of patent offices and relevant authorities in African countries to effectively use the flexibilities of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to protect public health. The seminar will foster dialogue among patent authorities and discuss policy options as well as provide specialized training to patent examiners on substantive examination of pharmaceutical patents.
Supporting Material
- The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Protocol on Patents: Implications for Access to Medicines
- EAC Regional Intellectual Property Policy on the utilisation of public health-related WTO-TRIPS flexibilities and the approximation of national intellectual property legislation
- Guidelines for the examination of patent applications relating to pharmaceuticals
- Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay
- Public Health, Innovation & IPR: Report of the Commission on IPR, Innovation & Public Health (2006)
- Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health - Adopted on 14 November 2001
- Logistics Note
- DRAFT Research Paper - Eighteen Years After Doha: An Analysis of the Use of Public Health TRIPS Flexibilities in Africa
- Formation régionale sur le rôle des bureaux nationaux des brevets dans la promotion de l'accès aux médicaments
- About the South Centre
- African regional training seminar on the Role of Patent Offices in Promoting Access
- WHO work on Access to Health Products and Intellectual Property
- Guidelines for Examination of Pharmaceutical Patents
- Are polymorphs invented?
- Accès aux médicaments génériques d'origine biologique
- TRIPS Flexibilities in the African Context
- Summary of recommendations from participants
- Group Discussion
- Programme African Regional Training
- Normative Context by Dr. Viviana Muñoz Tellez