U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Brian Dean Abramson – March 19, 2023

On March 19, 2023, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Brian Dean Abramson to discuss vaccine law and how legal frameworks might develop in response to other emerging applications of mRNA technology, as well as to delve into regulatory and intellectual-property matters and how thickets of patents can stand in the way of innovation within the vaccine field.

Timestamps

3:48 - Brian Dean Abramson’s presentation (kinds of intellectual property, “patent thickets,” why we have the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the history of views on vaccines)
30:01 - Planks of the USTP Platform that address patents - Sections LXXXI, LXXXII, and CXVI
32:32 - Insulin modifications to keep its patent, “submarine patents,” decentralized development, and facility approval by the FDA
41:36 - Patents and their filing, incentives for innovation, the money behind COVID vaccines, and the vaccine field since the COVID vaccine rollout
51:17 - Particulars of patent filings
56:59 - How out-of-pocket COVID vaccine costs could be ameliorated to keep people protecting themselves and their communities, current legal action of Moderna on Pfizer, why there is an anti-vaccine movement, and on what live organisms and tissues drugs are tested
1:11:13 - China’s COVID handling and situation, and a comparison of some COVID vaccines
1:16:57 - The history of mRNA technology
1:23:28 - Where vaccine technology starts being called gene editing, and how certain infectious diseases might be eradicated
1:34:01 - mRNA vaccines for cancer, HIV, and malaria, differences between vaccination in US and Europe, and at what stage we are in mRNA technology
1:41:15 - Legal hurdles to vaccines for non-communicable diseases, and some examples and semantics
1:46:15 - What is patentable
1:51:18 - Infrastructure needed to assist small-scale vaccine development

Brian Dean Abramson, Esq., LL.M., is Chair of the National Vaccine Law Conference Committee. He is the primary author of the legal treatise, “Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law”, the most comprehensive treatise written with respect to this field of law, published by Bloomberg Law in cooperation with the American Health Law Association in November 2018, and regularly updated thereafter. A second print edition was published by AHLA in February 2022. He teaches the subject as Adjunct Professor of Vaccine Law at the Florida International University College of Law.

Mr. Abramson previously worked for Bloomberg Law, for whom he authored the vaccine injury claims chapter of Matthew H. Solomson’s Court of Federal Claims: Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure, and for whom he wrote extensively in the fields of health and international privacy law. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he took an exceptional interest in the court’s vaccine injury docket. Prior to this, he interned with the Honorable Susan G. Braden of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and practiced intellectual property law with the firm of Lott & Friedland in Coral Gables, Florida.

Mr. Abramson received an MA in Comparative Sociology from Florida International University, followed by his JD, summa cum laude, from the Florida International University College of Law, and an LLM in intellectual property law with highest honors from the George Washington University Law School.

Visit the website of the National Vaccine Law Conference: https://vaccinelawconference.org/

“Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law” by Brian Dean Abramson, John R. Thomas, and Peter O. Safir - https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Vaccination-Immunization-Brian-Abramson/dp/1682675831

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