Tournament: UK season opener | Round: 1 | Opponent: Charlotte Latin AP | Judge: Emmiee Malyugina
Vaccine nationalism and profit driven incentives runs IP laws – covid and AIDS proves
Miriam Berger, 2-23-2021, Berger attended Wesleyan University, BA in College Social Studies; Oxford University, MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, "Global vaccine inequality runs deep. Some countries say intellectual property rights are part of the problem.," Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/20/poor-countries-arent-getting-vaccines-waiving-intellectual-property-rights-could-help/** Eagan AE
As the coronavirus pandemic rages, World Trade Organization representatives have periodically gathered around a
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to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "What is going on here?"
Public Citizen, 3-29-2021, Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power, "Waiver of the WTO's Intellectual Property Rules: Facts vs. Common Myths," https://www.citizen.org/article/waiver-of-the-wtos-intellectual-property-rules-myths-vs-facts/ Eagan AE
In the press and on Capitol Hill, Big Pharma is pushing a Big Lie
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the platform that, for instance, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine uses.
Waiving for COVID spills up and creates precedent
Brink Lindsey, 6-3-2021, Brink Lindsey is the VP of the Niskanen Center a nonpartisan think tank, "Why intellectual property and pandemics don't mix," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/03/why-intellectual-property-and-pandemics-dont-mix/ Eagan AE
Furthermore, and probably even more important, this is almost certainly not the last
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slow the diffusion of a new invention by restricting output and raising prices.
Kumar, PhD, 7-12-21, Rajeesh, Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, IDSA, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity", https://www.idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721)
In October 2020, India and South Africa had submitted a proposal to the World
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not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pandemics are only increasing – and getting more deadly – ending IP laws is necessary
Robert Roy Britt 1/19 ~Independent health and science journalist, former editor-in-chief of LiveScience, writing about how we age and how to optimize your mind and body through time. "This Pandemic Is Not Even the 'Big One'" Elemental, January 19, 2021 https://elemental.medium.com/this-pandemic-is-not-even-the-big-one-df8660da2564~~
As bad as Covid-19 seems, the world has grown increasingly
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coronavirus causing a disease dubbed MERS kills around 35 of its victims.
Pandemics exacerbate racial disparities — COVID proves
Wen and Sadeghi 20 ~Wen, Leana, and Nakisa Sadeghi. "Addressing racial health disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic: immediate and long-term policy solutions." Health Affairs (July 20, 2020). https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200716.620294/full/~~
The devastating impact of COVID-19 is apparent, with nearly three
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a long history of unequal treatment, discriminatory policies, and systemic racism.
Pandemics are an existential threat
Ranu Dhillon 17 instructor at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He works on building health systems in developing countries and served as an advisor to the president of Guinea during the Ebola epidemic instructor at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He works on building health systems in developing countries and served as an advisor to the president of Guinea during the Ebola epidemic, Harvard Business Review, 3-15-17, "The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic", https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-world-is-completely-unprepared-for-a-global-pandemic
In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at
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hit by a deadlier, more contagious pandemic. Will we be ready?
WTO flexibilities aren't enough – nor are they designed for pandemics like covid
Public Citizen, 3-29-2021, Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power, "Waiver of the WTO's Intellectual Property Rules: Facts vs. Common Myths," https://www.citizen.org/article/waiver-of-the-wtos-intellectual-property-rules-myths-vs-facts/ Eagan AE
In the late 1990s, millions of people in developing countries were dying from AIDS
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attacks on compulsory licensing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And it doesn't hurt innovation – in the case of PHE governments cover costs
Brink Lindsey, 6-3-2021, Brink Lindsey is the VP of the Niskanen Center a nonpartisan think tank, "Why intellectual property and pandemics don't mix," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/03/why-intellectual-property-and-pandemics-dont-mix/ Eagan AE
The situation is different in a pandemic. Here the government knows exactly what it
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incentives available, can be dismissed as the worst sort of special pleading.
It directly questions liberal institutions and increases political will
Meyer, 6/18/21, Meyer, David ~the Editor of CEO Daily and a senior writer on Fortune's European team. Author of the digital rights primer, Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rights.~ "The WTO's survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn,", https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/ Fortune, June 18, 2021. AA
The World Trade Organization knows all about crises. Former U.S. President
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impact not in starting discussions but in getting deals over the finish line."
====Thus the plan – The Member Nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by eliminating them in the case of Global Public Health Emergencies. ====
The plan would model India and South Africa's proposal
Dhar, Biswajit and KM Gopakumar (2020). Dhar is a Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and adviser to ARTNeT and Gopakumar is a Legal Advisor, Third World Network, Penang, Malaysia, "Towards more affordable medicine: A proposal to waive certain obligations from the Agreement on TRIPS", ARTNeT Working Paper Series No. 200, November 2020, Bangkok: ESCAP, https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/knowledge-products/AWP200_Dhar.pdf
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought a similar response from India and
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granted, three were from TRIPS obligations (World Trade Organization 2016).3
Intellectual property includes patents, industrial designs, trademarks, copyright laws, and geographical indications
Chandra Nath Saha and Sanjib Bhattacharya, Apr/Jun 2011, Chandra is a Quality Assurance Department, Claris Lifesciences Ltd., Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Bhattacharya is a Pharmacognosy Division, Bengal School of Technology (A College of Pharmacy), Sugandha, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, "Intellectual property rights: An overview and implications in pharmaceutical industry", NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217699/
Originally, only patent, trademarks, and industrial designs were protected as 'Industrial
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characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin~8~
Walker '4
"Reduce" means to reduce in size, amount, or intensity. Allen Walker Read, (Prof., English, Columbia U.), THE NEW INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 2004, 1058.
Reduce: To make less in size, amount, number, intensity, etc.; diminish.
Medicines includes articles – things put into you
NY Code 21, 8-25-2021, "Section 528.4," No Publication, https://casetext.com/regulation/new-york-codes-rules-and-regulations/title-20-department-of-taxation-and-finance/chapter-iv-sales-and-use-and-other-miscellaneous-taxes/subchapter-a-sales-and-use-taxes/part-528-exemptions/section-5284-drugs-and-medicines-medical-equipment-and-supplies ArchanSen + Eagan AE
(b) Drugs and medicines.
(1) Drugs and medicines mean:
articles, whether
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. Example:Soap, toothpaste and hair spray are taxable toilet articles.
====Global public health Emergencies means the international spread of disease====
Wendy Parmet, 09/15/14, Wendy Parmet is the Director of the Northeastern Program on Health Policy and Law and a Matthews Distinguished professor of Law at Northeastern University, "Defining Public Health Emergencies", https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2014/09/15/defining-public-health-emergencies/, Bill of Health – Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center Eagan AE
Some laws attempt to offer a bit more guidance. The 2005 International Health Regulations
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, thereby impeding efforts to encourage people to be tested for the virus.
Conetta and Knight 98 (Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, writers for the Project on Defense Alternatives of the Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Project on Defense Alternatives, February 1998, http://www.comw.org/pda/bullyweb.html) cliv
7. Playing with Wild Cards Without doubt, simulations — including nonstandard ones —
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, offer a highly-selective view of what the future may hold.
Kessler 08 (Oliver; April 2008; PhD in IR, professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, and professor of history and theory of IR at the Faculty of Arts; Alternatives, Vol. 33, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics" p. 211-232)
The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate
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prevail than in situations where security problems can be assessed with relative certainty.
Lawrence Hinman, professor of philosophy, writes in Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 2012: ~Lawrence Hinman, prof. emeritus of philosophy @ San Diego, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 5th ed. 2012 p. 152~
One of the attractions of utilitarianism is that it promises impartiality and objectivity grounded in
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that one group not assume the role of calculator for all other groups.