On November 30, 2020, online training on «Сompulsory licensing of patents», was held by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme.

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The purpose of the training was to study the provisions of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights on establishing flexibilities used by WTO member states for access to medicines and health technologies.

The main target audience of the training was representatives of interested state bodies and organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, justice bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as international experts.

During the online training, international experts presented materials on the following topics: the application of the TRIPS Agreement in countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, compulsory licenses and government use orders, some data on patent landscapes on COVID-19 vaccine candidates and proposed treatments, and others.

International experts and participants of the training took an active part in the discussion of the above issues and shared their experience and opinions on the compulsory licensing.