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Richa Chintan
Leaked Text Incorporates Stringent TRIPS Plus Elements, Global Calls for Rejection Increase
10 Apr 2022
Detailed analysis of the leaked TRIPS text reveals that it proposes more stringent restrictions (TRIPS Plus) than contained in the TRIPS agreement for protecting and enforcing IP protection. Experts…
Richa Chintan
Leaked WTO Draft Text on TRIPS Waiver Reveals ‘Compromise’
23 Mar 2022
The outcome has been slammed for perpetuating Big Pharma’s vaccine monopoly profits at the cost of lives.
Newsclick Report
Call for Action Against COVID-19 ‘Criminals’ Blocking Vaccine Patent Waiver
29 Nov 2021
Global Nurses United demands urgent probe into nations obstructing the WTO’s bid to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on jabs.
Richa Chintan
COVID-19 Vaccines: Inching Towards Text-based Negotiations on TRIPS Waiver Proposal – Anything Concrete?
12 Jun 2021
Although the TRIPS waiver proposal gathers support and the negotiations move forward, the process appears to be getting caught in a maze. A concrete outcome anytime soon is anybody’s guess, though…
Shinzani Jain
Monopoly Rights on COVID-19 Vaccines Create Nine New Billionaires
25 May 2021
Intellectual monopoly on COVID-19 vaccines has made billionaires out of CEOs and investors of vaccine companies – Moderna, BioNTech and CanSino Biologics – even as low-income countries have received…
Pavan Kulkarni
Lack of Political Will and IPR Rules Stand in the Way of Mass Vaccination for COVID-19
31 Mar 2021
A proposal made by India and South Africa in October last year to waive certain Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of COVID vaccines has gained massive support across the world. Despite its potential…
Ishupal Singh Kang
How Long Must Poorer Nations Wait for Access to Covid Vaccine?
07 Jan 2021
For all the talk about vaccines being a global public good, industrialised nations are dragging their feet on an arrangement proposed by South Africa and India at the WTO for equitable and widespread…
Shinzani Jain
Is it Enough to Focus on Anti-trust?
18 Nov 2020
This is the second part of the two-part report that examines the approach of the United States House Antitrust Subcommittee in its investigations of digital platform giants – Apple, Amazon, Google
Justice Prabha Sridevan
Patent and Patient Rights in COVID-19: Is the Right to Exclusivity a Hamlet Question?
09 Oct 2020
Today the judicial authority may be faced with balancing patent rights and patients’ rights or right to life.
Pavan Kulkarni
RCEP: As Deadline Looms, Trade Unions Call Out Dangerous Causes
19 Oct 2019
Negotiators representing 16 countries have been tasked with arriving at an agreement on the controversial Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership by October 19 but trade unions say the deal has…