“As developing countries continue to struggle with a shortage of COVID vaccines, talks over the proposed TRIPs waiver, which call for a ‘waiver’ of all IP rights related to technologies necessary for the containment, treatment or prevention of COVID-19, remain deadlocked at the WTO. There appears to be no possibility of breaking the deadlock, given the opposition from the European Union based on the claim that existing safeguards in TRIPs, such as the compulsory licensing provisions, read along with the Doha Declaration (2001), are sufficient to deal with the ongoing COVID pandemic …” (more)
[Prashant Reddy and Yogesh Pai, The IPKat, 13 July]
First posted 2021-07-14 16:00:09
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