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Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story
Public health voluntary licensing of intellectual property has successfully been applied to increase access to medicines in certain disease areas, producing health benefits and economic savings, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. There is however limited understanding of the int...
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author | Gore, Charles Morin, Sébastien Røttingen, John-Arne Kieny, Marie Paule |
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description | Public health voluntary licensing of intellectual property has successfully been applied to increase access to medicines in certain disease areas, producing health benefits and economic savings, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. There is however limited understanding of the intricacies of the approach, the modalities by which it works in practice, its levers and the trade-offs made. Such knowledge may be critical in deciding what role licensing should have in pandemic preparedness and equitable access to health technologies more broadly. This paper examines the case for licensing, the considerations for balancing public health needs, the challenges of negotiations, and the processes for validating proposed agreements. No access mechanism is perfect, but evidence suggests that public-health licensing has an important role to play, although it remains underused. Understanding some of the realities, strengths, limitations and complexities of applying the model may help calibrate expectations and develop incentives to expand its applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-104966842023-09-13 Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story Gore, Charles Morin, Sébastien Røttingen, John-Arne Kieny, Marie Paule BMJ Glob Health Analysis Public health voluntary licensing of intellectual property has successfully been applied to increase access to medicines in certain disease areas, producing health benefits and economic savings, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. There is however limited understanding of the intricacies of the approach, the modalities by which it works in practice, its levers and the trade-offs made. Such knowledge may be critical in deciding what role licensing should have in pandemic preparedness and equitable access to health technologies more broadly. This paper examines the case for licensing, the considerations for balancing public health needs, the challenges of negotiations, and the processes for validating proposed agreements. No access mechanism is perfect, but evidence suggests that public-health licensing has an important role to play, although it remains underused. Understanding some of the realities, strengths, limitations and complexities of applying the model may help calibrate expectations and develop incentives to expand its applications. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10496684/ /pubmed/37669799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012964 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Analysis Gore, Charles Morin, Sébastien Røttingen, John-Arne Kieny, Marie Paule Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title | Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title_full | Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title_fullStr | Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title_full_unstemmed | Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title_short | Negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
title_sort | negotiating public-health intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies: an insider’s story |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10496684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37669799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012964 |
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