1. DEBATE QUESTION: Please prepare for the following question:

In the midst of a pandemic, much attention and unprecedented resources have been devoted to vaccines and therapeutics. What is the role of a global intellectual property regime in this work? Does a strictly enforced and harmonized global intellectual property regime HELP or HINDER in the research, development and distribution of new biomedical technologies in the world?

–You dont know in advance which side you will be arguing.

2. READINGS:

A Defense of Intellectual Property (which is listed as Stephen Johnson, Guide to Intellectual Property, pages 1-15 in the syllabus)
T’Hoen Chpts 1 and 2
WTO’s Doha Declaration
TRIPS-WHO (noted as “WHO/UNAIDS, 2000. Pharmaceuticals and the WTO/TRIPS Agreement” in the syllabus)
James Love, The Use and Abuse of the Phrase Global Public Good in Pandemic Discourses, https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2020/07/09/the-use-and-abuse-of-global-public-good/ (not on Canvas but noted in the syllabus)

The Boyle chapter, posted on Canvas but not noted in the syllabus, is optional.