A row between pharmaceutical firms Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech comes to court in London on Tuesday over patents for COVID vaccine technology that helped save millions of lives during the pandemic.
Apr 23, 2024
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Attempts by the WHO to push for an agreement in the Pandemic Treaty negotiations is detrimental to poorer countries, according to a leading global health expert.
Apr 22, 2024
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Africa's data science ecosystem has the potential to drive transformative scientific research and health care advancements.
Feb 19, 2024
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You could say we got off easy this time around. While COVID-19 has killed almost 7 million people globally and caused widespread economic distress, it wasn't the worst pandemic the world could face.
Feb 12, 2024
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An accountability framework, including independent monitoring of state compliance, is critical for the pandemic agreement's success, according to researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and affiliates ...
Nov 8, 2023
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A UN anti-racism committee on Thursday urged rich countries—particularly Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States—to waive coronavirus vaccine patents and said they violated a guarantee against racial discrimination.
Aug 31, 2023
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About one in every five people carries a version of a gene that—although largely unsung—appears to confer protection against both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, Stanford Medicine investigators and their ...
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Melbourne researchers have designed a single drug that delivers a lethal "one-two" punch to several types of blood cancer in preclinical studies and could lead to improved treatments.
Aug 30, 2023
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A global COVID-19 knowledge-sharing platform has secured three new licensing agreements to transfer vaccine technologies, including one with the first private manufacturer to join the initiative, the World Health Organization ...
Aug 29, 2023
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The first successful in-patient trial of liver dialysis has been completed by researchers from UCL, the Royal Free Hospital, UCL spin-out Yaqrit and their collaborators.
May 31, 2023
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Intellectual property (IP) is a number of disparate types of legal monopolies over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions.
The majority[which?] of intellectual property rights provide creators of original works a form of temporary monopoly with the aim of creating an economic incentive to develop and share ideas.
Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and, it is said, not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the United States.
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