Congratulations to PatentsInHumans Researchers Lauren Kane and Sharon Adedapo who recently published their blog ‘Turning Ambitions into Action: Reflecting on Our First International Intellectual Property Conference at EPIP 2025′ in Ideas in ALL, the blog space of the ALL Institute.
In their blog, they reflected on their experience attending the conference alongside Professor Aisling McMahon and Dr Karen Walsh (MU School of Law and Criminology) and they provided an overview of the interesting presentations and panels they attended throughout the course of the conference.
Alongside attending conference sessions, they were both delighted to have the opportunity to present a paper at EPIP. Prof Aisling McMahon and Lauren Kane co-presented a paper in the ‘IP and Access to Health Technologies’ session on Thursday afternoon, entitled; ‘Patents and Access to Patented Health-Technologies in Everyday Healthcare Contexts: Implications and Limitations of Addressing Access Issues Through a Right to Health Approach.’ This paper explored whether, and to what extent, the right to health could be used at the national level by patients, and States, to secure broader access to patented emerging health technologies.
Prof Aisling McMahon and Sharon Adedapo presented their co-authored paper entitled ‘Edwards v Meril – Injunctions as a Remedy for Patent Infringement for Health Technologies: A Critical Analysis of the Unified Patent Court’s Discretion to Balance Patient Interests and Rightsholder Interests’ in the ‘IP and Dispute Resolution’ panel. This paper examined the newly created Unified Patent Court’s (UPC), exploring the discretion of the UPC to consider patient interests in injunction cases over life-saving medical devices, and analysed the recent UPC’s decision in Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (2024).
You can find out more about the PatentsInHumans project, including ongoing work at: www.patentsinhumans.