This policy brief documents how trade secrets have played a key role in enabling the innovation, investment and collaboration that has delivered Covid-19 vaccines in record time.
An expanded waiver would derail current successful efforts to expand access to Covid treatments and destroy innovation incentives
IP rights are crucial for pandemic preparedness, says think tank coalition.
With careful reform of its patent law etc, Indonesia can accelerate its transition to a knowledge-based, wealthy economy
Forcing biopharmaceutical companies to locate operations within countries as a condition of market access could undermine both investment and access to medicines.
Nossa agenda de reformas para atualizar o sistema brasileiro de exame de patentes para padrões internacionais.
Our reform agenda to upgrade the Brazilian patent examination system to international standards.
Our analysis of patenting on the WHO’s latest Essential Medicine List (22nd edition, 2021) shows a decline in the percentage of patented medicines for the first time.
Data shows that intellectual property rights have been vital to developing the most important innovative Covid medicines.