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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

Legally speaking, patent pledges are comparable to the open source software licenses that underlie much of the world’s technology infrastructure and the Creative Commons licenses that make billions of online images, videos and other content freely available (both discussed here ). Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

Patents and trade secrets empower private actors to make decisions about pricing, production, and supply of important medical technologies — in short, about public health. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance.

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Biden Administration Unveils Long-Awaited COVID-19 Rules For Large Employers and Healthcare Workers

Health Law RX

Employees who do not report to a workplace where other individuals, such as coworkers or customers, are present are exempted from coverage – an exemption which could lead employers to reevaluate whether to continue remote working practices. It is the employer’s responsibility to determine the vaccination status of each employee.