Apparently, both India and South Africa have initiated a process with the World Trade Organization to temporarily wave patent and intellectual property provisions under what’s known as Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) for both the containment and...
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Arbutus Biopharma Seeks a Share of Moderna’s Revenues Should its COVID-19 Vaccine (mRNA-1273) be Approved: Patent Dispute
Moderna, the maker of mRNA-1273, one of the leading COVID-19 experimental vaccine candidates, has attracted enormous attention from investors, society, and the press, not to mention from health authorities and governments around the world. Now they have new attention:...
Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) Sought to Patent Gilead’s Remdesivir
Gilead’s experimental drug remdesivir shows possibly the most promise of all experimental COVID-19 vaccine prospects as evidenced by China’s reported possible move, via the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to patent the drug to treat...
$3+ Billion Revenue TRUVADA and the Interesting Patent Question Few Knew About
The price of drugs becomes more contentious as some classes of drugs increase in price far faster than prevailing incomes. This overall trend appears to intensify with specialized new therapy classes, such as gene therapy where Novartis recently announced a $2 million...