Patents are a method for legally recognising innovation in a product or service and their growth in the Emirates is in line with the nation s own rise in the World Intellectual Property Organisation s Global Innovation Index rankings. The UAE climbed two places in the 2020 index to 34th globally and third in the Northern Africa and Western Asia region.
The UAE has signed more than ten agreements with international institutions that support intellectual property rights, including the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure and the Strasbourg Agreement on the International Patent Classification.
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White House considering intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines
By Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is considering options for maximizing global production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines at the lowest cost, including backing a proposed waiver of intellectual property rights, but no decision has been made, press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. There are a lot of different ways to do that. Right now, that s one of the ways, but we have to assess what makes the most sense, Psaki said, adding that U.S. officials were studying whether it would be more effective to boost existing manufacturing of the vaccines in the United States.
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Over the last few decades, intellectual property rules have served as a lethal barrier to the right to access healthcare
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Over the last few decades, intellectual property rules have served as a lethal barrier to the right to access healthcare
Even an unprecedented pandemic can do little, it appears, to upset the existing global regime governing monopoly rights over the production and distribution of life-saving drugs. If anything, since the onset of COVID-19, we’ve only seen a reaffirmation of intellectual property rules that have served as a lethal barrier to the right to access healthcare over the last few decades. The neo-liberal order, under which these laws exist, is so intractable today that a matter as seemingly simple as a request for a waiver on patent protections is seen as a claim unworthy of exception.