Sep 27 2024 to Sep 27 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Access to affordable, high-quality pharmaceutical products remains a critical challenge worldwide, particularly in the Global South. In this lecture, Prof. William Fisher will explore this pressing global health issue through historical insights, including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. He will discuss potential initiatives that can foster local pharmaceutical innovation and production without requiring changes to the existing international intellectual property obligations. Through a set of legal and economic suggestions, the talk will explore ways to build sustainable infrastructure for local pharmaceutical industries in the Global South, while also addressing some of the key concerns of both proponents as well as critics of intellectual property rights.

A Q&A with the audience will follow. Tea will be served a at 6pm.

Speaker

William Fisher Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School Prof.

William Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk, first to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is now the Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law. In 2013, he created the CopyrightX online course, which is now offered annually to approximately 1000 students worldwide. In 2021, he and Professor Ruth Okediji created a similar course on Patent Law and Global Public Health, which is now offered semiannually in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is currently the director of Global Access in Action, a non-profit organization, based at Harvard Law School, whose primary mission is improving public health in low and middle-income countries.