The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant challenges to our privacy and intellectual property regimes. Seton Hall Law’s Institute for Privacy Protection and Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology invite you to join panel discussions with legal academics, practitioners, and government officials to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on privacy and intellectual property. Efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic can impact privacy rights of patients, those at risk, and the general population. Panel One will include topics addressing: What are the duties of healthcare providers to report patients’ COVID-19 information? How should governments track infected individuals and others at high-risk? How secure are databases containing COVID-19 information? Patenting drugs and vaccines incentivizes innovation, but patents increase prices and affect availability. Panel Two will discuss the options of patenting COVID-19 drugs and vaccines as well as other alternatives pertinent in times of health emergencies, including compulsory licenses, voluntary licenses, and patent pools.
WHEN
Thursday, September 17, 2020, from 12:00-2:30 p.m. EST.
WHERE
Virtual event on Zoom. Link and access code will be provided upon registration.
ADDITIONAL EVENT DETAILS
Panel One – Balancing Privacy and Public Health
Panelists include:
- Ryan Calo, Lane Powell & D. Wayne Gittinger Endowed Professorship, Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
- Rachel Hammond, Data Privacy Officer, New Jersey Department of Health
- Helen Oscislawski, Esq., Founder and Managing Partner, Attorneys at Oscislawski LLC
- Stacey A. Tovino, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law
- Moderated by Gaia Bernstein, Technology, Privacy & Policy Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute for Law, Science & Technology, Seton Hall University School of Law
Panel Two – Intellectual Property: Incentives and Access to Vaccines and Treatments
Panelists include:
- Esteban Burrone, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Medicines Patent Pool
- Sapna Kumar, Law Foundation Professor of Law, Co-Director for the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, The University of Houston Law Center
- Nicholson Price, Professor of Law, The University of Michigan Law School
- Corey Salsberg, Vice President, Global Head IP Affairs, Novartis
- Moderated by David Opderbeck, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology, Seton Hall University School of Law
NJ CLE credits pending. Register for this event below.