Olga Gurgula

Brunel University London - Brunel Law School

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Patent Strategies and Competition Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Implications for Access to Medicines

European Intellectual Property Review, Forthcoming, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 233/2016
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 May 2016 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2016
Duncan Matthews and Olga Gurgula
Queen Mary University of London - School of Law and Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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competition law,access to medicines,reverse payment agreements,strategic patenting,pharmaceutical industry, patents, abuse of intellectual property,patent thickets,evergreening,product switching,defensive patenting

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Compulsory Licensing of Trade Secrets: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 Vaccines via Involuntary Technology Transfer

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 363/2021, Forthcoming, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2021)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Olga Gurgula and John Hull
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School and Centre for Commercial Legal Studies
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COVID-19 vaccines, compulsory licensing, IP waiver, TRIPS, patents, trade secrets, technology transfer

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Compulsory Licensing vs. the IP Waiver: What Is the Best Way to End the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Policy brief 104, October 2021, the South Centre
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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compulsory licensing, the WTO IP waiver, EU proposal on compulsory licensing, COVID-19 vaccines, patents, trade secrets

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Drug Prices, Patents and Access to Life-Saving Medicines: Changes Are Urgently Needed in the COVID-19 Era

Forthcoming in the European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 05 May 2021
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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patents, strategic patenting, access to medicines, high drug prices, COVID-19

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AI-Assisted Inventions in the Field of Drug Discovery: Readjusting the Inventive Step Analysis

International Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2020
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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artificial intelligence, inventive step, obviousness, patents, drug discovery, access to medicines

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Strategic Patenting by Pharmaceutical Companies: Should Competition Law Intervene?

IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Volume 51, pages 1062–1085 (2020)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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strategic patenting, evergreening, pharmaceutical patents, anticompetitive, generic competition, access to medicines, access to COVID-19 treatment

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Strategic Accumulation of Patents in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Patent Thickets in Complex Technologies — Two Different Concepts Sharing Similar Features

IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Forthcoming , Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 242/2016
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2021
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Patent Thickets, Strategic Accumulation of Patents, Perindopril, Anticompetitive Practices, The Pharmaceutical Industry, Patent Wars

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Saving Ukrainian Lives during the Russian War: Ukraine Must Waive IP Rights under Article 73 TRIPS to Provide Access to Essential Medicines

Forthcoming, GRUR International, 8/2022
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2022
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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russian war against Ukraine, IP rights, access to medicines, compulsory licensing, IP waiver, patents, Article 73 TRIPS, security exceptions

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COVID-19, IP and Access: Will the Current System of Medical Innovation and Access to Medicines Meet Global Expectations?

Forthcoming in the Journal of Generic Medicines
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jan 2021
Olga Gurgula and Wen Hwa Lee
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School and University of Oxford - Oxford Martin School
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COVID-19, patents, access to medicines, affordable medicines, compulsory licensing, open innovation

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Monopoly v. Openness: Two Sides of IP Coin in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Forthcoming, Journal of World Intellectual Property
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 May 2019
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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patents; the pharmaceutical industry; access to medicines; open innovation

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Anticompetitive Patent Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical Industry

European Competition Law Review, vol. 38, Issue 1 (2017).
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2018
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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pharmaceutical patents, patent acquisitions, Perindopril, Bioval, anticompetitive behaviour, monopolisation, abuse of dominant position

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Restrictive Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Reverse Payment Agreements Seeking for a Balance between Intellectual Property and Competition Law

This article was published in the ICC Global Antitrust Review Issue 5, 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Sep 2016
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Reverse payment agreements, patents, pharmaceutical industry, drugs

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Accelerating COVID-19 Vaccine Production via Involuntary Technology Transfer

The South Centre policy brief 102 (September 2021)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2021
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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COVID-19 vaccine technologies, trade secrets, patents, the TRIPS IP waiver, compulsory licensing, technology transfer

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Ukraine DFID/FCO IP Court Project: The Final Report

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 353/2021, Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3789913
Number of pages: 209 Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Noam Shemtov, Olga Gurgula, Maciej Padamczyk, Alina Trapova and Anna Shtefan
Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Brunel University London - Brunel Law School, Queen Mary University of London, University College London (UCL) and Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property of National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
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specialised IP Court, Ukraine, IP enforcement, IP adjudication, IP judiciary, IP disputes

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Affordable Medicines and Innovation: Consequences and Lessons from Countries with Different Patentability Standards

Bio-Science Law Review, forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2021
Pratheeba Vimalnath, Olga Gurgula, Nick Scott-Ram, Chas Bountra and Wen Hwa Lee
University of Cambridge, Brunel University London - Brunel Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Oxford - Oxford Martin School
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patents, access to medicines, TRIPS, strong patent protection, open innovation

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The new IP Court in Ukraine: Its Creation and Exclusive Jurisdiction

Book chapter in Richter (ed), Competition and Intellectual Property in Ukraine, Springer, Forthcoming 2022
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Feb 2022
Anna Shtefan and Olga Gurgula
Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property of National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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IP court, IP litigation, IP judiciary, IP disputes, exclusive jurisdiction, Ukrainian judicial reform

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Ліки та Патенти: Міфи, Реальність, Конкуренція Та Міжнародна Практика (Drugs and Patents: Myths, Realities, Competition and International Practice)

Ця стаття надрукована в Юридичній Газеті від 7.02.2017 N 6(556), Legal Journal (Yuridichna Gazeta) 7.02.2017 N 6(556))
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2017
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Патент, фармацевтична галузь, ліки, конкуренція, антимонопольний, антиконкуренційні дії, зловживання монопольним становищем

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The ‘Obvious to Try’ Method of Addressing Strategic Patenting: How Developing Countries Can Utilise Patent Law to Facilitate Access to Medicines

South Centre, Policy Brief 59, April 2019
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 May 2019
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Strategic patenting, pharmaceutical patents, evergreening, secondary patenting, pharmaceutical industry, access to medicines, developing counties

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US Supreme Court Decision on Reverse Payment Agreements: New Era in Patent Litigation Settlements – FTC v. Actavis, Inc., 570 US (2013)

Published in Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 325-335, 2013
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 29 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2016
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Actavis, antitrust, drugs, patents, pharmaceutical, reverse payment agreements

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Invoking Article 73 TRIPS in Good Faith: No Recourse to ‘Security Exceptions’ for Russia’s Violation of Trips

Published in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford) on 06 April 2023
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Russia’s war against Ukraine, TRIPS, WTO dispute settlement, compulsory licensing, IP waiver, Article 73 TRIPS, security exceptions, good faith, violation of TRIPS, national treatment, most-favoured-nation

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Specialised IP Judiciary: What Are the Key Elements to Consider when Establishing or Reforming an Effective IP Court?

Forthcoming in GRUR International - Journal of European and International IP Law, Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 371/2021
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2021
Olga Gurgula, Maciej Padamczyk and Noam Shemtov
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School, Queen Mary University of London and Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies
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IP disputes, specialised IP courts, IP adjudication, IP litigation, intellectual property

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Anticompetitive Patent Strategies by Pharmaceutical Companies

This paper was presented at the International Scientific and Practical Conference ‘Second Scientific Readings in Memory of Professor G. V. Pronska’ held on 21 April 2023
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 04 May 2023
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Pharmaceutical competition, medicines, high drug prices, patent strategies, strategic patenting, strategic accumulation of patents, anticompetitive patent strategies, pay-for-delay agreements, divisional patent applications, the European Commission, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine

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The Intersection Between Intellectual Property and Competition Laws in the Pharmaceutical Sector: A Ukrainian Perspective

Book chapter in Richter (ed), Competition and Intellectual Property in Ukraine, Springer, 2022 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 May 2022
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Ukraine, access to medicines, competition law, pay-for-delay agreements, anticompetitive strategies, anticompetitive agreements, intellectual property, patents

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Обмеження прав інтелектуальної власності під час війни для забезпечення доступу до критично необхідних ліків в Україні на підставі статті 73 ТРІПС (Implementing the IP Waiver during the War to Enhance Access to Essential Medicines in Ukraine under Article 73 TRIPS)

Тези доповіді для Міжнародного круглого столу 'Правові питання епідемічної безпеки під час воєнного стану' (16 червня 2022 року) (Conference Paper for the International Roundtable 'Legal Aspects of Epidemiologic Safety during Martial Law')
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 Jun 2022
Olga Gurgula
Brunel University London - Brunel Law School
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Російська війна проти України, права інтелектуальної власності, доступ до ліків, обмеження прав інтелектуальної власності, патенти, Статті 73 ТРІПС, винятки щодо безпеки, Russian war against Ukraine, IP rights, access to medicines, IP waiver, patents, Article 73 TRIPS, security exceptions