Tournament: Duke Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Olympia BO | Judge: Antonio Gomez
CP text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to raise the inventiveness standard for granting secondary patents for medicines.
The "inventiveness" standard outlines how much a drug must improve to be re-patented. Increasing the standard allows for generic drug competition while maintaining innovation.
Christensen 20 ~Connor Christensen, "The Evergreen Forests of Insulin Patents", Awakenwfu, The Creative Journal of Contemporary Bioethics, 9-14-2020, https://awakenwfu.com/2020/09/14/the-evergreen-forests-of-insulin-patents/, accessed: 9-7-2021.~ CHSTM and Lex VM
A potential solution to prevent patent evergreening would be to modify the "inventiveness"
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tangible that something of the same name can be depriving people of life.
====Black's Law 90 ~Black's Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Reduce" https://dictionary.thelaw.com/reduce/ Elmer
In Scotch law.~ To rescind or annul.
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Cancherini et al. 4/30 ~(Laura, Engagement Manager @ McKinsey and Company, Joseph Lydon, Associate Partner @ McKinsey and Company, Jorge Santos Da Silva, Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company, and Alexandra Zemp, Partner at McKinsey and Company), "What's ahead for biotech: Another wave or low tide?", McKinsey and Company, 4-30-2021, https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/pharmaceuticals-and-medical-products/our-insights/whats-ahead-for-biotech-another-wave-or-low-tide~~ TDI
As the pandemic spread across the globe in early 2020, biotech leaders were initially
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as multi-omics tailored diets) to a multitude of health applications.
Bacchus 20 ~(James, member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland) "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, 12-16-2020, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~ TDI
At the heart of this emerging trade debate is a belief by many people worldwide
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balance in these rules between upholding IP rights and fulfilling immediate domestic needs.
Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterror.
Marjanovic and Feijao 20 ~(Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon.) "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~ TDI
As key actors in the healthcare innovation landscape, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies have
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in some of these efforts and participating in global RandD partnerships (