October 16, 2020
World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Council
October 16, 2020
This implies, inter alia, that, while recognizing the value of protecting intellectual property rights, we should focus on the purpose of such rights and on the limitations and potential negative consequences of the current system. “It would be sad if, for the vaccine for Covid-19, priority were to be given to the richest! It would be sad if this vaccine were to become the property of this nation or another, rather than universal and for all”.