Tripping Up U.S. Intellectual Property, Jobs and Innovation
24 June 2022
Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, discusses the World Trade Organization’s recent announcement to waive patent protections for COVID vaccines (and the Biden Administration’s support of the effort), why it amounts to a giveaway of U.S. medical innovation, and how it will undermine U.S. jobs and create a disincentive for future innovation within the pharmaceutical industry and beyond.
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