The EU IP Harmonization Package to Include EU-wide compulsory License

Key Points – The EU aims to harmonize patent protection rules and flexibilities with a layer on top of national rules. This is in line with long-term efforts by the EU institutions to harmonize patent rules and motivated, in part, by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the case of the biopharmaceutical sector….
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP