Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. Moreover, it imposes additional restrictions on use of compulsory licenses. Moreover, Brazil’s new compulsory license law models another critical feature that domestic laws should have – a way around data exclusivity.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. Even those relying on a new type of vaccine technology, such as mRNA vaccines , resulted from well over a decade of R&D in mRNA vaccinology and used vaccine components that were developed well before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. Around the same time, it poured billions of dollars to accelerate vaccine development, without obtaining a single contractual commitment to protect global access.

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Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

An employee is considered “fully vaccinated” two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine with, if applicable, at least the minimum interval between doses as recommended by the CDC, World Health Organization (“WHO”), or if administered as a part of a clinical trial.

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