Abstract

GONZALEZ MERINO, Arcelia  and  CASTANEDA ZAVALA, Yolanda. Intellectual Property in the Age of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). The Dilemma between the Private and Social Well-Being. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2021, vol.36, n.104, pp.183-218.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 2007-8358.

The aim of this article is to use the concept of modernity to analyze and question how the system of patents has sharpened the adverse social and economic impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic since December 2019. The authors review the role played by bio-pharmaceutical companies in the international vaccine market and the intellectual property system associated with it. Finally, in the specific case of Mexico, they analyze the evolution of the intellectual property system and how vaccination has been a process that, while it has moved ahead using criteria based on sectors and age, continues to be slow, and there fore contagion and death rates continue to exist and private interests continue to prevail over social well-being.

Keywords : modernity; Covid-19; patents; social well-being; Mexico.

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