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Countries Consider Pandemic Pooling of Rights And Compulsory Licensing

Transparency of R&D Costs Also Requested

 
• By Francesca Bruce

Intellectual property rights are under the microscope as countries prepare to provide affordable and timely access to pandemic technologies.

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Countries Consider How To Make COVID-19 Technologies Accessible

In an important move in the fight against the pandemic, Costa Rica has requested that the World Health Organization head an initiative to pool intellectual property rights relating to coronavirus technologies. Meanwhile Chile and Ecuador have paved the way for compulsory licenses, and the demand for more transparency on the costs of R&D and public financing is growing.

Costa Rica’s president, Carlos Alarado Quesada, and health minister Daniel Salas Peraza have written to the World Health Organization asking it to undertake a global initiative to pool rights to...

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