Posts Tagged: COVID-19
A Third Option: Limited IP Waiver Could Solve Our Pandemic Vaccine Problems
In the early days of the vaccination efforts, Americans were anxiously online trying to register for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment. Reports of success at 1:30 am and 2:30 am …
Emerging Anti-IP Policies the Focus of Heritage Foundation Event
At today’s Heritage Foundation event in Washington, D.C., titled Restoring American Leadership in Patent Law and Innovation Policy, former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office …
International Academics Push for TRIPS COVID IP Waiver Hold-Outs to Drop Opposition
One-hundred-twenty-four professors and academics from around the world have penned an open letter supporting India and South Africa’s proposed waiver of certain provisions of the Agreement …
Extending the Innovation Pipeline to Africa’s Patients
With summer underway in the United States, we want to believe the global pandemic is ending. In many cities, restaurants are at near-full capacity, scaled-back festivals are …
Game On: How IP Helps the Video Game Industry Level Up
While countless industries have been forced to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, the video game industry has been on a winning streak. Historic numbers of people have …
Waiving IP Rights: The Wrong Path to the Right Goals
Waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines will hinder rather than further three meritorious objectives of the current U.S. Presidential Administration: ending the pandemic as …
Vaccines, Intellectual Property, and Global Equity
The rollout of effective COVID-19 vaccines is happening at a historically unprecedented pace. Manufacturing and delivering vaccines to some 7.8 billion people worldwide, however, has reignited tensions about …
EU Offers Alternative to COVID-19 IP Waiver That Supports Innovation and Addresses Supply Chain Problems
On June 4, the European Commission submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) its proposal for improving access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in countries suffering from vaccine …
Biden is Missing an Opportunity at the USPTO
Intellectual property (IP) made modern vaccines possible. It took billions of dollars in private and public investments in research and development to be able to create, in …
How Individuals Can Protect Themselves from Scams Related to COVID-19
Cybercriminals have exploited the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption of the past 14 months to scam a record number of people. The UK’s cybersecurity agency, the National …
TRIPS IP Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors
While the discussions around waiving intellectual property (IP) rights set forth in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) are currently (and somewhat amorphously) …
The Big Secret Behind the Proposed TRIPS Waiver
All the fuss surrounding the proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the TRIPS Agreement to help them produce vaccines to fight COVID-19 has obscured some …
Republican Senators Demand Answers from Biden on ‘Disastrous Decision’ to Support COVID IP Waiver
A group of 16 Republican senators sent a letter on Wednesday to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai …
Thriving in Turbulent Times by Unleashing the Full Potential of Innovation Data
A decade of consecutive, annual growth in patent application activity worldwide came to a sudden halt in 2020. The pandemic has upended many aspects of business, including patent …
Global IP Policy Should Shift to Promote Patent Sharing
President Biden recently announced his support for easing patent rules surrounding COVID-19 vaccines and other COVID-related intellectual property in the wake of growing crises in India and …
