Hughes law alumnus Kevin Outterson, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University, and Visiting Fellow at Chatham House, Centre on Global Health Security, will be presenting a seminar titled, The Legal Ecology of Resistance, or Why Normal IP Rules Shouldn’t Apply to Antibiotics.
The seminar will be taking place at the Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law (CIPIL), University of Cambridge, on Thursday 24th April, at 6pm.
Alumnus Professor Outterson will be discussing the role of patent laws in aiding bacterial resistance to anti-invective medicines, the growing understand of the ineffectiveness of the pharmaceutical business model, and the search for new approaches.
More information can be found on the CIPIL website.