outlookindia.com 2021-05-15T08:49:26+05:30 On March 11, 2020, the world woke up to the declaration of pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the virus outbreak in Wuhan. The race commenced to find a cure or vaccine for the virus called Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2, the genetic sequence of which was disclosed on January 10, 2020. While the race to develop covid cures, vaccines and diagnostic technologies are on, so are the murmurs of invoking compulsory licensing (CL) under Patents Act which is now before the Supreme Court of India. But is CL feasible? Patents are territorial intellectual property rights. The Indian Patent Law mandates 5 forms of compulsory licensing (CL) under the following 3 trigger situations :