“A patent is a social product and has a social function”, stated India’s speaker to drive home the point of equitable access to healthcare at the recently concluded 20th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP) in Geneva. The SCP was created in 1998 to facilitate WIPO member states to discuss international development of patent law. All WIPO members are allowed to participate in the annually held sessions and NGOs can attend as observers and make “interventions”. The...
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