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Making Intellectual Property a Common Good to Combat Global Pandemics and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP): Responding to the Challenges Exerted by Big Pharma and Some High-Income Countries

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dc.contributor.author Adikari, A.A.C.J.
dc.contributor.author Wijesinghe, S.S
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-08T03:59:26Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-08T03:59:26Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Adikari, A.A.C.J., Wijesinghe, S.S.(2021).Making Intellectual Property a Common Good to Combat Global Pandemics and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP): Responding to the Challenges Exerted by Big Pharma and Some High-Income Countries, Vidyodaya Journal of Management 2021, Vol. 07 (II) 69-99 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/10432
dc.description.abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has created a global race for research into a vaccine, diagnostic and therapeutic among research institutes, governments, and big-tech pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma). In this context, intellectual property rights (IPRs) play a prominent role in incentivizing COVID-19 vaccines. Simultaneously, IPRs, particularly the patent rights of Big Pharma, create restrictions on fair access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines. Besides, economically powerful high-income countries have purchased and reserved a large amount of COVID-19 vaccines while low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been struggling to obtain sufficient vaccine doses. These factors have contributed to increasing the gap of access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines between high-income countries and LMICs. Having foreseen the likely effect of LMICs being discriminated against in the global COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution, the global community has already made some efforts to revisit the normative aspects of IPRs by making intellectual property a common good to achieve global health during the pandemic. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), considering the proposal made by Costa Rica. The C-TAP intended to ensure technology transfer, disclosure of research, flexible licensing and open innovations. However, Big Pharma and some high-income countries have criticised and directly interfered in the effective functioning of C-TAP. Therefore, there remains a question as to whether the C-TAP approach would only be idealistic or realistic in the global governance of IPRs and public health. Accordingly, this paper critically analyses the prospects that C-TAP would offer LMICs to overcome IPRs-related barriers and resource constraints in accessing the COVID-19 vaccine and reflect on how to tackle Big Pharma and some high-income countries’ influences on the effective functioning of C-TAP. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura en_US
dc.subject Access to medicine: Big Pharma: COVID-19 vaccine: C-TAP: IP as a common good en_US
dc.title Making Intellectual Property a Common Good to Combat Global Pandemics and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP): Responding to the Challenges Exerted by Big Pharma and Some High-Income Countries en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31357/vjm.v7iII.5096 en_US


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