Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. United States President Joseph Biden has made it clear that after weighing all the pros and cons he was in favor of waiving intellectual property rights on anticovid-19 vaccine patents so that they can be produced faster and the world can finally overcome the current pandemic. Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures, she said in a statement. The administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. We will actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization needed to make that happen, she added.