Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19

Jorge L. Contreras, Michael B. Eisen, Ariel B. Ganz, Mark A. Lemley, Jenny Molloy, Diane M. Peters, Frank Tietze

Nature Biotechnology · 2020 · 77 citations · 4 references

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Voluntary pledges to make intellectual property broadly available to address urgent public health crises can overcome administrative and legal hurdles faced by more elaborate legal arrangements such as patent pools and achieve greater acceptance than governmental compulsory licensing.

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