@article{50158,
      author = {Ncube, Caroline B.,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/50158},
      title = {Intellectual property norms in the polycrisis—(still)  omnipresent, distracting, irrelevant?},
      abstract = {Twenty years since Professor Cornish asked whether IP is  ‘omnipresent, distracting, irrelevant?’, this article  revisits that question following recent times of  instability, which have compounded the polycrisis the world  is facing, whilst the 2030 deadline to achieve the UN  Sustainable Development Goals looms closer and closer.   This contribution argues that IP plays a critical role as  one of multiple regulatory systems seeking solutions in the  highly dynamic and insecure contexts of the climate  emergency, uneven global development and pandemics,  requiring timely and comprehensive normative development.  However, over the last two decades there has been a glacial  pace towards setting appropriate IP norms and states,  policymakers and legislatures have to move beyond merely  settling for a ‘more of the same’ approach.  The  ongoing World Health Organization’s Pandemic Accord  negotiations present an opportunity to confirm IP’s  relevance to combatting the polycrisis by setting effective  norms and a technology transfer mechanism. It is concluded  that missing this opportunity would render debates about IP  no more than a deadly distraction.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpae054},
      recid = {50158},
      pages = {1 online resource (pages 717-724)},
}