Rights:

The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

Title:

Difficult Debate on an Intellectual Property Protection Waiver to Fight COVID-19

Creator:

Zaręba, Szymon.

Subject:

Pandemic ; COVID-19 ; Intellectual property law ; International organizations

Abstract:

The negotiations currently taking place at the WTO on the suspension of, among others, patent protection for vaccines and medicines against COVID-19, are at a standstill. This creates a risk of widening the rift between developing countries, which mostly support the idea, and some developed countries, which oppose it. It also makes it more difficult to increase the supply of patented items, particularly of vaccines, to an extent undermining other efforts by countries and international organisations to contain the pandemic. It is in the interest of Poland and the EU to overcome this impasse.

Place of Publishing:

Warsaw

Digitisation Sponsor:

The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

Publisher:

The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

Issued:

2022.01.03

Type:

file

Format:

pdf

Extent:

513 KB

Source:

PISM Bulletin no. 1 (1918), 2022

Language:

eng

Is Version Of:

Biuletyn PISM nr 1 (2420), 2022

Rights Holder:

The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

Location of Physical Object:

Library of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)