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Trips-Compliant Alternatives For Overcoming Intellectual Property Barriers To Covid-19 Countermeasures, Brook Baker
Trips-Compliant Alternatives For Overcoming Intellectual Property Barriers To Covid-19 Countermeasures, Brook Baker
Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series
In the aftermath of the recent WTO Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (adopted June 17, 2022), there may be some confusion about the many options that countries have for overcoming intellectual property barriers to allow alternative production, distribution, and use of COVID-19 countermeasures. Of course, visibility into the patent landscape for particular products is essential to understanding freedom to operate in terms of products, ingredient, and manufacturing processes, and that work is complicated, though aided by the Medicines Patent Pool MedsPaL and VaxPaL databases and work done by other researchers on COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics patents . Overcoming patent …