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31 March 2022
Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the most recent proposal at the World Trade Organization to suspend provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) safeguarding patents for Covid vaccines, treatments and other therapies, why this anti-intellectual property proposal is unnecessary in the effort to solve global access to Covid vaccines, and how, if passed, it will negatively impact and undermine pharmaceutical innovation and jeopardize America's leading position as an inventive nation.
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