November 6, 2021 (Saturday)
Keynote Speech Fostering Production of Pharmaceutical Products in Developing Countries
8:00 – 8:40am, DC Time
(8:00 – 8:40pm, HK Time)
Moderator: Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
40 mins
William Fisher, WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Panel 3 Boosting Developing Countries’ Capacities for Protecting Public Health
Keynote Speech
8:40 – 9:45am, DC Time
(8:40 – 9:45pm, HK Time)
Moderator: Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, New York University School of Law
Keynote Speech
15 mins
Covid-19 as a Complex Disease: The Case for a Non-Traditional Team Approach
Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Associate Dean for Innovation and Partnerships and Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Keynote Speech
15 mins
Infrastructure, Not Waivers: Promoting Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Keynote Speech
15 mins
Patent Philanthropy
Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Keynote Speech
20 mins
Q&A
Keynote Speech
9:45 – 9:55am, DC Time
(9:45 – 9:55pm, HK Time)
Break (10 mins)
Panel 4 Alternative Means of Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Keynote Speech
9:55 – 11:00am, DC Time
(9:55 – 11:00pm, HK Time)
Moderator: Eric Ip, Associate Professor of Law and Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Keynote Speech
15 mins
The Open COVID Pledge as a Model for Public Interest Utilization of IP
Jorge L. Contreras, Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law and Director of Program on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Keynote Speech
15 mins
New Licensing Avenues to Promote Public Health
Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
Sapna Kumar, Professor of Law, John Mixon Chair and Co-Director for the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
Keynote Speech
15 mins
Reducing Covid-19 Vaccine Inequity – Who will Implement it?
Jayashree Watal, Former Staff Member, WTO’s Intellectual Property Division and Honorary Professor, National Law University Delhi
Keynote Speech
20 mins
Q&A
Keynote Speech
11:00 – 11:10am, DC Time
(11:00 – 11:10pm, HK Time)
Break (10 mins)
Panel 5 Dynamic Protection of Public Health in China, India, and Latin America
Keynote Speech
11:10am – 12:40pm, DC Time
(11:10pm – 12:40am, HK Time)
Moderator: Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center
Keynote Speech
15 mins
India, the World's Pharmacy Failing to Deliver: IP and Beyond!
Kashish Aneja, Consultant, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Keynote Speech
15 mins
Restructuring the Global Vaccines Industry
Carlos M. Correa, Executive Director, The South Centre
Keynote Speech
15 mins
COVID-19 Vaccine Production in Latin America: Assessing the Landscape
Ken Shadlen, Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science
Keynote Speech
15 mins
China's Changing Phamaceutical Landscape and the Global Pandemic Response
Peter Yu, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University School of Law
Keynote Speech
30 mins
Q&A