Contracts that restrict patent filing or impose patent-licensing obligations This briefing note illustrates examples of contractual language from data-sharing agreements and material transfer agreements that limit patent filing or impose specific licensing terms. KEI Briefing Note 2025:4 Arianna Schouten December… Continue Reading
On March 1, 2021, KEI obtained a copy of the binding term sheet between Pfizer/BioNTech and the Dominican Republic for the supply of their COVID-19 vaccine in the country. The document, requested via the freedom of information law in the… Continue Reading
One of the characteristics we have seen in our analysis of COVID-19 contracts is heterogeneity. The Bayh-Dole was enacted in 1980 to provide for uniform provisions on funding agreements regarding the ownership of inventions and the public’s rights. But for… Continue Reading