What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?
The negotiations leading to the WTO Decision proved once again the inadequacy of the debate over intellectual property rights.
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COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers refusing to share samples may be the latest example of the tragedy of the “anticommons” in biomedical research.
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Read more: Reclaiming Global Public Health Reclaiming Global Public Health
The promise of COVID vaccines has been unevenly realized: fault lines have emerged between those able to secure doses and those left behind.
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Read more: The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents
The proposal introduces precedents that will be used to justify further narrowing of TRIPS flexibilities.
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Read more: COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach
For COVID treatments and diagnostics to be broadly available at affordable prices, their IP must be considered a global public good.
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Read more: FRAND Terms for Pandemic-essential Intellectual Property Rights FRAND Terms for Pandemic-essential Intellectual Property Rights
The use of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms in the licensing of intellectual property rights could foster cooperation in pandemics.
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Read more: Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity
Putting vaccine equity at the center of a pandemic treaty will already be a huge step towards global health’s decolonization.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good
The pandemic has laid bare the lack of regulation for the sharing of intellectual property needed for an effective and equitable response.
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Read more: Promoting Vaccine Equity Promoting Vaccine Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief longstanding equity problems surrounding the allocation of newly developed vaccines.
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Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.