Why a leaked WTO 'solution' for a COVID patent waiver is unworkable and won't make enough difference for developing countries
- Written by: Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty ImagesThere was a brief moment of euphoria last week, when it seemed that COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and supplies might be liberated from the World Trade Organization’s intellectual property rights straitjacket and a patent waiver would make them available and affordable to the unvaccinated in the global...
