KEI Comments on the Medicines Patent Pool/Merck License for Molnupiravir

(For more resources, please see our page on molnupiravir.) The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Merck Sharp & Dohme (“MSD” or “Merck”) have announced a voluntary license for the generic manufacture and sale of molnupiravir. A joint press release from… Continue Reading

International landscape of molnupiravir patents

(For more resources, please see our page on molnupiravir.) KEI has built a dataset of patents related to molnupiravir based upon a study by Imran et al (2021), the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) MedsPal database, and our own searches. Our… Continue Reading

US government rights in patents on Molnupiravir, based upon funding of R&D at Emory University

(For more resources, please see our page on molnupiravir.) Molnupiravir, the oral pill that is showing promising results as a potential treatment for covid-19, was invented at Emory University with U.S. government funds. After more than six years of non-clinical… Continue Reading