Contents: 1 Intellectual property rights in the post pandemic world: an introduction 1 Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Mähönen and Pratyush Nath Upreti PART I NEW PARADIGMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RULES IN COVID-19 2 A critical appraisal of the COVID-19 TRIPS waiver 11 Peter K. Yu 3 An elusive response from developed countries to a TRIPS waiver request to address COVID-19 31 Carlos Correa and Nirmalya Syam 4 Crisis, invention, and innovation 57 Shubha Ghosh 5 Alternative IP theories 75 Hans Morten Haugen 6 Intellectual property, friendship and the pandemic: a reflection 95 Pratyush Nath Upreti PART II TRANSFORMING IP TOWARDS GLOBAL JUSTICE WITH INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY 7 Rethinking intellectual property through decoloniality and other lenses 118 Yousuf A. Vawda 8 The right to research as guarantor for sustainability, innovation and justice in EU copyright law 138 Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte 9 Trademark, privacy and data protection 170 Tianxiang He and Qingchuan Xie 10 Artificial intelligence, patents and health innovation 188 Enrico Bonadio and Magali Contardi 11 IP, medical AI and public health crisis 205 Yahong Li PART III SHAPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FINANCING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 12 Relationship and intersections between intellectual property, property (as security) and circular economy 225 Sean Thomas 13 The UNDP Accelerator Lab Network 246 Matthew Rimmer 14 The potential of follow-on innovation financing instruments to support a sustainable transition 277 Natacha Estèves, Alina Wernick and Suelen Carls 15 IPR and beyond 299 Dhanay Cadillo-Chandler, Rosa Maria Ballardini and Jouko Nuottila 16 Seeking and hiding: corporate disclosure norms, enhancing non-financial information transparency using the technology readiness level (TRL) system 319 Janice Denoncourt 17 Conclusions: towards a (new) framework of sustainability, innovation and global justice for intellectual property 348 Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Mähönen and Pratyush Nath Upreti Index 352

‘This is a timely and much-needed book, which provides important insights into the “what’s next?” of intellectual property on a global scale: by stressing the relationship between innovation, sustainability and global justice, this book brings to the fore the multi-faceted nature of intellectual property and the need for “fairness” to be part of the relevant ecosystem of rights and interests, as well as free spaces and the public domain.’