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Kerala High Court seeks Centre’s response to invoke compulsory licensing of Covid vaccines -KC Gopakumar

-The Hindu Business Line WTO has allowed countries to issue compulsory licenses during emergencies A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to respond to a plea for invoking the compulsory licensing to allow other capable vaccine manufacturers to produce Covid vaccines. The Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan and Justice M.R.Anitha passed the directive when a public interest litigation in this regard came up for hearing. The petition said that the scarcity of vaccines was mainly due to the inability of manufacturers of the vaccines to ramp up their production. All capable Indian companies could be allowed to produce Covid-19 vaccines by invoking the compulsory licensing system. This had been approved by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In fact, the countries were free to issue compulsory licenses during emergencies. Besides, compulsory licensing had been permitted under the Patents Act of 1970. The countries were also free to decide what constitutes an emergency. The patent owner must be suitably compensated. So there was no scope of a backlash from Geneva. The petition also pointed out that section 92 of the Act empowered the Central government to issue compulsory licenses subject to three conditions; a) there must be a national emergency; b) the requirement must be extremely urgent; c) it must be for public non-commercial use. A deadly virus, killing 4,000-plus Indians a day did qualify for all three conditions. So, India could invoke the section to issue compulsory licensing. India could even override patents on Pfizer and AstraZeneca and other vaccines. Moreover, the rigours of protection of intellectual property right as per the TRIPS agreement could be relaxed with respect to life-saving medicines, in case of national emergency as decided by the Doha Summit of WTO in 2001, the petitioner added. Please click here to read more.