THE PRICE OF LIFE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENTS AND STANDARDS IN GLOBAL HEALTH DR PHOEBE LI LECTURER, SUSSEX LAW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX 19/07/2013.

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THE PRICE OF LIFE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENTS AND STANDARDS IN GLOBAL HEALTH DR PHOEBE LI LECTURER, SUSSEX LAW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 1

Mapping the scene Intellectual Property deriving from a virus – the risk factor of IP Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus Courtesy of WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 2

OUTLINE Introduction Research questions Methodology Dilemmas Recent development The way forward 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 3

INTRO: KEY WORDS Precautionary approach (PA) Risk analysis: risk assessment; risk management; risk communication Pre-grant measure: Patentability Post-grant measure: Compulsory licensing TRIPS: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights SPS: WTO Agreement on the Applications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures TBT: WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 4

INTRO: REFLECTIONS ON IP V INNOVATION ‘[T] here is a growing consensus among economists that the current IP regime actually stifles innovation’. (Stiglitz & Jayadev, ‘India’s Patent Wise Decision, Project Syndicate, 08/04/2013) ‘[A] global intellectual property landscape that is heavily shaped by corporate interests – usually American’ (Stiglitz, ‘How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality’, NY Times, 14/07/13) Why should patent term be 20 years rather than, say, 10 or 30 years? Evidence? Is there room for different views among different countries? Should the US government be pushing other countries to adopt their model? (Simon Lester, 'Debating Intellectual Property’, CATO Institute, 15/03/2013) 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 5

FUNDAMENTAL AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS What is the right balance between innovation and access? What counts for right innovation? How to embody human rights claims in the world trade system by promoting access to essential technologies? How can intellectual property (IP) rights be harnessed by the legitimate interests of health and (national) security? What is the relationship between science and IP? Does risk analysis/PA have a role to play in the regulation of technology? If so, then how? To what extent can WTO Members use the inbuilt flexibilities of TRIPS by subjective interpretation according to levels of development? 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 6

METHODOLOGY 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 7

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19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 9 RightsResponsibilities WTO MembersRights to protect health Grant minimum IP protection IP right holdersExclusive IP rightsPrevent abuse of IP The publicRight to healthWhat is the right expectation? Rights and responsibilities in WTO law

DILEMMAS The scope of protection: The more useful/essential a technology is, the higher the chance of force sharing (compulsory licensing) Products/Technologies are assumed safe in WTO law unless proven otherwise (EU – Biotech) ; virus is assumed acceptable unless proven otherwise? (Burden of proof in a pending pandemic) Does the ‘local working’ requirement in compulsory licensing (a strict or relaxed approach to IP) contribute to or deter international technology transfer? An organic/sustainable concept to IP acting in accordance to the swift mutation of viruses poses a challenge to the value of stability in traditional property law 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 10

RECENT CASES IN INDIA: PRE-GRANT Novartis AG, NATCO Pharma Ltd & M/S Cancer Patients Aid Association v Union of India & Others, Civil Appeal Nos , 2728, of 2013 Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents (Amendment) Act 2005: A stringent criterion of ‘therapeutic efficacy’ for patentability (prevent evergreening) ‘the same patent law would operate differently in two countries at two different levels of technological and economic development, and hence the need to regulate the patent law in accordance with the need of the country’ (para. 37). 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 11

RECENT CASES IN INDIA: POST-GRANT India Compulsory License Application No. 1 of 2011 Compulsory licensing on the ground of ‘local working’ (a) The reasonable requirements of the public with respect to the patented invention have not been satisfied; (b) The patented invention is not available at a reasonably affordable price ; (c) The patented invention is not worked in India ‘I only wonder why the Patentee did not execute this concept by offering differential pricing for different classes/sections of public in India...they offer this drug at a similar price… to patients all over the world.’ (p. 35) 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 12

PROPOSED DIFFERENT PRICING MODELS Considerations: reference pricing, differential pricing, cost based pricing, and price negotiations, Drugs are classified into three groups for the purpose of price negotiation: medicines having no therapeutic equivalence in India, medicines having a therapeutic equivalent in India, and medicines introduced for the first time in India – each merits a tailored pricing strategy. (‘Report of the Committee on Price Negotiation for Patented Drugs’, Government of India, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Department of Pharmaceuticals, No /5/2009-PI- II (pt), 21 February 2013) Note: WHO (2013) ‘Priority Medicines for Europe and the World 2013 Update’, Chapter /07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 13

RECENT DEVELOPMENT Post-grant opposition:  Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 106 U.S.P.Q.2d 1972 (U.S. 2013) [2013 BL ]  Consumer Watchdog v Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Case: , Filed: 02/07/2013 The Brazil Patent Act (Law no. 9279) reform: Bill no. H.R. 5402/ /07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 14

THE WAY FORWARD Innovation beyond IP: government–financed research; foundations, and the prize system; Health Impact Fund; Public-Private Partnerships Tempering IP in accordance with levels of development A fast track to file opposition ? Fostering an encompassing/organic/adaptive approach to international IP? Application of risk analysis to IP  Risk assessment: pre-grant examination (Brazil ANVISA; WHO Pandemic preparedness)  Risk management: A precautionary approach to IP  Risk communication: Patient and citizen involvement in innovation; A Bottom-up approach to IP? How to engage the public for IP policy making? Public debate? Political considerations? 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 15

Thank you! ‘Rights and responsibilities in patents – A precautionary patent framework in WTO law’ (2013) 9 European Intellectual Property Review Health technologies and international intellectual property: A precautionary approach (2014) Routledge Contact: 19/07/2013 Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 16