Intellectual Property Rights in the Post Pandemic World

Edited by Taina Pihlajarinne, Professor of Copyright Law, University of Helsinki, Jukka Mähönen, Professor of Cooperative Law, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway and Pratyush Nath Upreti, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Contents:

1 Intellectual property rights in the post pandemic world: an
introduction 1
Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Mähönen and Pratyush Nath Upreti

PART I NEW PARADIGMS OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RULES IN COVID-19
2 A critical appraisal of the COVID-19 TRIPS waiver 11
Peter K. Yu
3 An elusive response from developed countries to a TRIPS
waiver request to address COVID-19 31
Carlos Correa and Nirmalya Syam
4 Crisis, invention, and innovation 57
Shubha Ghosh
5 Alternative IP theories 75
Hans Morten Haugen
6 Intellectual property, friendship and the pandemic: a reflection 95
Pratyush Nath Upreti

PART II TRANSFORMING IP TOWARDS GLOBAL
JUSTICE WITH INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
7 Rethinking intellectual property through decoloniality and
other lenses 118
Yousuf A. Vawda
8 The right to research as guarantor for sustainability,
innovation and justice in EU copyright law 138
Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte
9 Trademark, privacy and data protection 170
Tianxiang He and Qingchuan Xie
10 Artificial intelligence, patents and health innovation 188
Enrico Bonadio and Magali Contardi
11 IP, medical AI and public health crisis 205
Yahong Li

PART III SHAPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
FINANCING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
12 Relationship and intersections between intellectual
property, property (as security) and circular economy 225
Sean Thomas
13 The UNDP Accelerator Lab Network 246
Matthew Rimmer
14 The potential of follow-on innovation financing
instruments to support a sustainable transition 277
Natacha Estèves, Alina Wernick and Suelen Carls
15 IPR and beyond 299
Dhanay Cadillo-Chandler, Rosa Maria Ballardini and Jouko Nuottila
16 Seeking and hiding: corporate disclosure norms,
enhancing non-financial information transparency using
the technology readiness level (TRL) system 319
Janice Denoncourt
17 Conclusions: towards a (new) framework of sustainability,
innovation and global justice for intellectual property 348
Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Mähönen and Pratyush Nath Upreti

Index 352