2022-3-10 – Theory and practice of intellectual property

Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 3 / 2022

ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/32022.262634

Published 2022-08-09

Intellectual Property as a Part of State Biosafety in Healthcare: disputable issues and identification of key areas of research in wartime

Oksana Kashyntseva
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2598-5614

Yaroslav Iolkin
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9030-6809

Abstract
Healthcare: disputable issues and identification of key areas of research in wartime. The Decree of the President of Ukraine of December 17, 2021 approved the Strategy of Biosafety and Biological Protection (hereinafter — the Biosafety Strategy), which radically changed the approach to defining the concept of biosafety of the state. Prior to the adoption of the Biosafety Strategy, which was developed in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, biosafety has been considered only as a component of environmental protection with a focus on limiting the use of genetically modified organisms. Instead, the pandemic of COVID-19 and the war posed new challenges to society, including the necessity to identify and to determine the content of legal institutions that can ensure the biosafety of the state in the field of healthcare.

Even in the pre-war period, the necessity of relevant scientific research was approved at the level of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine with the determining of the scientific field “Intellectual Property as a component of biosafety of states in the field of health care”. The study had been started in January 2022 on the basis of the Department of Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Field of Healthcare of the Intellectual Property Scientific Research of National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (hereinafter — the Institute). The leaders of the scientific research are the Director of the Institute Dr Oleksandr Doroshenko and the Head of the department Dr Oksana Kashyntseva.

However, the beginning of the active phase of the war on February 24, 2022 set new challenges, adding to the challenges of the pandemic the challenges of war. Today, experts of the Institute are part of the working group to develop a Recovering Plan of Ukraine’s from the effects of the war for 2022–2032 particularly in Healthcare System. At the State level, the Intellectual Property possess the proper effective instrument to ensure the biosafety.

Keywords: intellectual property, biosafety, biosecurity, healthcare, biotechnology, medicines, TRIPS flexibilities, TRIPS security exceptions

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