https://www.scmp.com/rss/508457/feed Brajendra Navnit is the ambassador and permanent representative of India to the WTO. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A proposal by India, South Africa and other countries is calling on the World Trade Organisation to exempt member countries from enforcing some patents and other intellectual property rights under the organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips), for a limited period of time. This is to ensure that IPRs do not restrict the rapid scaling-up of manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments. Unprecedented times call for unorthodox measures. We saw... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3116228/coronavirus-vaccines-why-world-should-support-intellectual-property?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3116228/coronavirus-vaccines-why-world-should-support-intellectual-property?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:30:14 +0000