The research on the role of the World Trade Organization in solving the
vaccine patent waiver problem related to the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemiwill
address each issue one by one. Seeing the waiver applications that were made from
the end of 2020 to 2022, it is necessary to further study the legal basis and
enforcement of patents. Coupled with its relation to public health and equality for
the global world to achieve. This study aims to provide an understanding of the role
of the WTO in the patent waiver application process and the continuity of current
and future patent law enforcement.
This research is a normative research with a descriptive method that will
explain with the aim of obtaining a description of the events of the patent waiver
application. The data that has been obtained will be analyzed qualitatively.
Conclusions will be obtained from various descriptive data collected from primary
and secondary sources that have been analyzed. In this regard, this research will be
descriptive-analytical in nature which will reveal existing regulations and their
implementation.
The results of this study are that the WTO has carried out its roles and
functions in accordance with applicable international legal instruments. However,
this research emphasizes further on the principles of the WTO itself which
emphasize justice for developing and less developed countries on the other words
called Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries (SDT). Coupled
with the existence of the Doha Declaration which should emphasize that public
health should take precedence over intellectual property rights, including patents.