History, Experiences, and Prospects of Compulsory Licensing of Medical Patents in the U.S.
Channel: KEIWashDC
Date: 2017-02-24

On February 24, 2017, KEI hosted a workshop on the compulsory licensing of medical patents in the United States The event featured presentations and roundtable discussions on several topics relating to the history of and experiences with the non-voluntary use of patents in the United States, with a focus on medical patents.

Slide presentations are available here: http://keionline.org/feb2017clworkshop

00:17:27 Jamie Love, Director, KEI, Introduction

00:22:15 Zack Struver, Communications and Research Associate, KEI, history of compulsory licensing statutes and legislation in the United States

01:02:02 Panel discussion on non-voluntary use of patents under 28 U.S.C. 1498, featuring:

Moderator: Anna Kaltenboeck, Program Director and Senior Health Economist, Center for Health Policy Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen

02:49:11 Panel discussion on non-voluntary use of patents in "eBay" court cases, featuring:

Moderator: Hillary Brill, Practitioner-in-Residence, American University Washington College of Law Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic, and Founder, HTB Strategies
Matthew Herper, Senior Editor for Pharma & Healthcare, Forbes
Rachel Sachs, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Andrew Goldman, Counsel for Policy and Legal Affairs, KEI

03:54:39 Panel discussion on Bayh-Dole Act march-in provisions, featuring:

Moderator: Alicia Mundy, Chief Investigator, Minority Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget
Hannah Vogel, Legislative Assistant for Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas
C. Allen Black, Jr., Attorney and Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Aaron S. Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and head of Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Brigham and Women's Hospital
James Love
Ashley Stevens, President, Focus IP Group, and former President, Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)

05:40:41 Panel, Global norms and compulsory licensing statutes in other countries, featuring:

Moderator: Manon Ress, Member, Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT)
Frederick M. Abbott, Edward Balll Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law, Florida State University College of Law
Andrew Goldman

06:27:08 Concluding panel discussion, featuring:

Manon Ress
Shanna Devine, Lobbyist, Public Citizen
Aaron S. Kesselheim
Amy Kapczynski
Rachel Sachs
Frederick M. Abbott
James Love
Alex Lawson, Executive Director, Social Security Works