Settlement of Patent Case With Potential to Limit Reach of Ozempic
I find the use of intellectual properties to limit access to pharmaceutical drugs extremely interesting, particularly in face of international agreements such as the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Recently, pharmaceutical companies Mylan Pharmaceuticals and Novo Nordisk settled a patent dispute over Ozempic, the popular weight loss drug […]
The Fine-Line of Copyright infringement in Songwriting
This paper examines the complexity and difficulty in deciding whether copyright infringement has occurred in the context of songwriting
On Trend: Striking against Innovation
Dockworkers on strike in Portsmouth, Virgina on 1 October. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS This week, 45,000 dockworkers on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts went on strike demanding “absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation”, costing billions of dollars a day and prompting Chris Wilson-Smith (The Globe and Mail) to recall a […]