December 9, 2020
World Intellectual Property Organization 32nd Standing Committee on Patents Item 7 – Patents and health
December 9, 2020
Delegation of the Holy See would like to emphasize that intellectual property should be subordinated to the requirements of the common good. This implies the need for adequate control mechanisms to monitor the logic of the market. The common tragedy that the human family is facing this year should reawaken a sense of our interconnectedness as a global community. “[We are,] all in the same boat, where one person’s problems are the problems of all. Once more we realized that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together”.