Time is running out to expand an agreement to relax patent rules on COVID vaccines. Members of the World Trade Organization should broaden its scope to treatments and tests.
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Only 14% of people in poorer countries have received one vaccine dose, but a leaked WTO ‘solution’ to waive patents fails to ensure developing countries can access life-saving vaccines and medicines.
From vaccines to treatments and even medical equipment, intellectual property rights have hampered the world’s efforts to fight the pandemic.
The US has backed a proposal to waive intellectual property relating to COVID measures – but global efforts need to go beyond vaccine patents.
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, University of Kent
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Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Law, Flinders University
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Assistant professor, GEM
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Chef de rubrique Santé, The Conversation France