Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

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Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and external researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany). Henning’s research, teaching and legal advice focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces amongst legal orders in international law, including transnational law set by private actors.

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Access to Covid-19 Treatment and International Intellectual Property Protection – Part II: National security exceptions and test data protection

Editor's Note: Part One of this post can be found here. In Part One, this post considered obligations under international law to offer patent protection for existing and future Covid19 treatment, and how that is likely to affect widespread access to affordable treatment around the world. Its showed how voluntary licensing and compulsory…

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Access to Covid-19 Treatment and International Intellectual Property Protection – Part I: Patent protection, voluntary access and compulsory licensing

In our new Covid19 world, advice by leading public health experts suggests that we will continue to live under quarantine or some form of social distancing regimes (which may have to be switched on and off) until populations have developed sufficient herd immunity – or an effective treatment (such as a vaccine) has been found. Given the…

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