The current article addresses the question of whether and under which circumstances access to medical countermeasures against pandemics, such as COVID-19, may constitute a community interest under international law. First, the intertwined concepts of global public goods and community interests are fleshed out. Second, the analysis expounds whether the protection against pandemics, including immunization, can be framed as a community interest, and which obligations would result. Third, the relationship between community interests and intellectual property rights as enshrined in international law is explored. Fourth, the conclusions try to reconcile the goals of international intellectual property rights and the protection against pandemics. Positive obligations to furnish medical countermeasures may not attain the consent of a sufficiently large number of states. Nevertheless, articulating the protection against pandemics as a community interest should entail obligations to refrain from resorting to international intellectual property law to impede developing patent-protected medical countermeasures in other countries.

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应对疫情的医疗对策与知识产权

当前的文章解决了是否以及在什么情况下可以获得针对流行病的医疗对策的问题，例如冠状病毒-19，可能构成国际法规定的共同体利益。首先，充实了全球公共产品和社区利益相互交织的概念。其次，分析阐述了预防流行病（包括免疫接种）是否可以构成社区利益，以及会产生哪些义务。第三，探讨了国际法规定的社区利益与知识产权之间的关系。第四，结论试图调和国际知识产权和预防流行病的目标。提供医疗对策的积极义务可能无法获得足够多的国家的同意。尽管如此，