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May 11, 2021
Biden To Support Waiving Patents For COVID-19 Vaccines
As vaccination rates increase in the U.S., developing nations which have sought the patent waiver for months are facing massive coronavirus outbreaks.
By Daniel Marans and Sara Boboltz
The Biden administration plans to support a temporary waiver on patents and other intellectual property rules preventing developing countries from mass-producing generic COVID-19 vaccines, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on Wednesday.
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U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the Biden administration s support for the waiver on Wednesday.
A group of developing countries led by India and South Africa was pushing for the move, which comes as a relief for global public health advocates.
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Husch Blackwell LLP issued the following announcement on Apr. 26.
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that partner Beau Jackson has been included in Ingram’s 2021 40 Under Forty class. The honor is reserved for Kansas City’s leaders, achievers, and newsmakers under the age of 40.
Jackson helped start and leads the firm’s Section 337 practice – litigation at the intersection of intellectual property and international trade. Husch Blackwell is the only Heartland-based firm with a full-service Section 337 practice and was recently recognized as a top 25 firm in this specialized area. Jackson has an extensive, proven record of success in some of the most high-profile Section 337 cases before the U.S. International Trade Commission. He also assists clients with a variety of other international trade and intellectual property issues, including customs and trade remedies matters.
COVID tested our infrastructure and supply chains, and our patent rules must catch up
The pandemic revealed the inadequacies of our supposedly state-of-the-art supply chains and energy infrastructure and led us to policies to make them more resilient.
Empty shelves at the Rio Grande Latin Market on Webb Chapel Road in northwest Dallas.(Robert Wilonsky / Staff writer)
By Bernard L. Weinstein
Coming on the heels of a global pandemic, the stranded container ship that halted traffic in the Suez Canal recently was yet another example of how we take global supply chains for granted. If the past year has taught us anything, it is the importance of resilience and the ability to adapt quickly to unprecedented and unexpected events.
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On April 19, 2021, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the Liberal
Government’s 2021 budget (Budget 2021). Budget 2021 is titled “A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience” and unveils CA$101.4 billion in new spending, along with certain policy developments. One of these new policy developments is Canada’s procurement for new fighter aircraft.
Budget 2021 reaffirms Canada’s economic interests as a core principle of its procurement policy.
2017 policy
In December 2017, the Government of Canada (the Government) launched a
competition process for 88 advanced fighter aircraft, CF-18s, the biggest investment in the Royal Canadian Air Forces in more than 30 years (2017 Procurement). The contract value for the 2017 Procurement is between CA$15 to CA$19 billion. The 2017 Procurement was originally due to close in March 2020. However, in February 2020, the Government granted a 3-month extension to the deadline at the request of the indus