Lift the patents of vaccines to "produce them in the form of generics"
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Joe Biden said he is in favor of the lifting of patents on vaccines.
AP - Mary Altaffer
By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
8 mins
Wednesday, May 5, Joe Biden said he was in favor of the patenting of vaccines against Covid-19.
A decision that displeases the pharmaceutical industry, according to which this decision will not allow to increase production.
The International Trade Organization, seized by India and South Africa last October will have to decide and enact the terms of this potential suspension of intellectual property rights.
Should vaccines be common goods?
Elements of answer with Fabienne Orsi, economist, researcher at IRD.
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Fabienne Orsi
is co-author of the
Dictionary of Common Goods
(
Presses Universitaires de France
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