1. Difficult Debate on an Intellectual Property Protection Waiver to Fight COVID-19
- Author:
- Szymon Zaręba
- Publication Date:
- 01-2022
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- The Polish Institute of International Affairs
- 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.
- Topic:
- Intellectual Property/Copyright, European Union, Vaccine, COVID-19, and WTO
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Poland, and Global Focus