Discussion Post

The companies that developed the vaccines and treatments in the covid pandemic provide very real-life, real-time examples of the questions of protecting patents as business assets while answering social responsibility concerns.

As the CEO of one of these companies, how would you respond to calls to share your company’s IP and under what circumstances? How would a Biblical worldview influence your decisions?

Consider, for example, the following:

Rowland, C., Rauhala E., & Berger, M. (2021, March 20). Drug companies defend vaccine monopolies in face of global outcry. The Washington Post.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A655745537/BIC?u=vic_liberty&sid=summon&xid=4321e4f8 (Links to an external site.)

D’Eminio, F. (2021, October 11). Moderna has no plans to share its COVID-19 vaccine recipe. AP. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-united-nations-europe-d4aff7ddb273194b312354a57c244ce6 (Links to an external site.)

Taylor, A. & Parker, C. (2021, October 27). U.S. drug company Merck to share license for experimental covid-19 treatment with nonprofit. Washington Post. https://bi-gale-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/global/article/GALE%7CA680335867/3c02464fd736364ef628911fa70dea32?u=vic_liberty

The student will first post a thread of at least 600 words.

For each thread and reply, analysis must be supported with a minimum of 2 scholarly sources 

other than the course textbook and provided materials. Each source must be cited in current APA 

format. Each thread and each reply must include both full citations in a reference list at the end 

of each post, and short-form in-text citations. 

Acceptable sources include books, legal and business journals, legal cases, the law (cases, 

statutes, regulations, etc.), the Bible, biblical commentary, etc. Dictionaries and other web 

sources that lack scholarly support are not acceptable sources. Any sources cited must be current 

to the issue (e.g., Bible commentaries may by applicable from any age, but articles discussing 

current legal practices may no longer be relevant after 2 or 5 years). 

A well-developed, complete worldview analysis of the situation requires more than simply 

adding a Bible verse at the end of the post. Each thread and each reply must include at least 1 

verse from Scripture, quoted and applied as an integral part of the discussion of the applicable 

issues in the context of a Biblical worldview.