Apr 20 2021, 12:53 PM
April 20 2021, 12:53 PM
April 20 2021, 12:53 PM
As the country faces the full force of a brutal second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an important international debate underway about the proposal put forth by India and South Africa before the World Trade Organization calling for a waiver of certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS.The hope is that by suspending intellectual property rights, especially for patents, countrie.
As the country faces the full force of a brutal second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an important international debate underway about the proposal put forth by India and South Africa before the World Trade Organization calling for a waiver of certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS.
IP rights have nothing to do with slow global rollout of vaccines Despite this, some 90 developing nations, led by India and SA, have called for a waiver to suspend all intellectual property rights associated with Covid-19 innovations 17 March 2021 - 05:00 Stephen Ezell Picture: 123RF/SASIRIN PAMAI
In the face of a Covid-19 pandemic that has caused 2.6-million fatalities worldwide, life sciences companies have raced to bring forward a wide range of life-saving innovations, including novel diagnostic tests such as that of LumiraDx, which can detect the virus within minutes; therapeutics, such as Gilead Science’s remdesivir; and highly effective vaccines such as those from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson.
Have patent term adjustments arrived in Mexico?
10-02-2021
15-04-2015
In a significant ruling, Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned decades of resistance and allowed a patent term adjustment, Marina Hurtado-Cruz of Baker McKenzie reports.
A new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPPI) came into force in Mexico last year. The new law will affect industrial property rights including patents. For the first time in Mexico, the possibility of adjusting the validity of patents is allowed when there have been unjustified delays during its examination. All patents filed as of November 5, 2020, may benefit from this right if the requirements established in the LFPPI are met.