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In Supreme Court, govt. had said bringing vaccines under statutory regime will be “counter-productive”

On 5 May 2021, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the Biden Administration would support India and South Africa’s request for a World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver...

The government also urged the Supreme Court to keep off the subject of the pricing of the jabs

Jonathan Berger / The Conversation Recognising that IP may well be abused, TRIPS allows countries to adopt public health safeguards and flexibilities. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai. Photo by Inter-American Dialogue via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0) “Extraordinary times … call for extraordinary measures”, said Katherine Tai, the US Trade Representative,...

Tripped up: All you need to know about the Covid-19 TRIPS waiver and what it may achieve for SA (and what it won’t) Franziska Sucker Franziska Sucker is associate professor at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand On 5 May 2021, following enormous pressure, ambassador Katherine Tai announced the US government’s support for waiving intellectual property (IP) protection for Covid-19 vaccines. The following morning, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission pr...

Maverick Citizen: Explainer Tripped up: All you need to know about the Covid-19 TRIPS waiver and what it may achieve for SA (and what it won’t) By Franziska Sucker• 11 May 2021 Activists outside Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan, New York demand that US President Joe Biden support the TRIPS waiver, which would lift the intellectual property protection for Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo: Steven Francis Kong) A waiver would not be a global answer to the pandemic but would be a step in the right d...

What Bidens Support To TRIPS Waiver Proposal Means For The Fight Against Covid-19 Pandemic News18 5 days ago Shantanu Mukherjee © Provided by News18 What Bidens Support To TRIPS Waiver Proposal Means For The Fight Against Covid-19 Pandemic Joe Biden’s announcement on May 5, 2021, that the US intended to support the TRIPS waiver proposal was a startling change of tune to anyone familiar with the global pharmaceutical industry’s considerable political influence. As was th...

A Mumbai vaccination centre runs out of stocks. | Punit Paranjpe/AFP The US on Wednesday announced its support for the waiver of intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines. This was the result of months of advocacy by India, South Africa and civil society. Several scientists and Nobel Laureates have been campaigning for this and have found widespread public support.   “The United States respects the right of its trading partners to exercise the full range of e...

All Alerts & Newsletters Five Key Questions Raised by the United States’ Decision to Support a Temporary TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines May.07.2021 On May 5, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai issued a statement announcing the Biden Administration’s support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. Ambassador Tai acknowledged the Administration’s general support for intellectual property protections, while underscoring that “the extraordinary circumst...

The present COVID-stricken world has been experiencing the devastating impact of this pandemic on human lives, livelihood, and economies with no confirmed end in sight. Quest for its curative vaccine has been developed in record speed. But their distribution has been lopsided creating the 'vaccine divide' and 'vaccine nationalism or hoarding' which is now at the forefront of