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Collaborative IP strategies for publicly funded R&D needed now and for the future

There is little doubt that IP, especially patents, should not be an impediment to forging solutions to the global crisis that we are all facing. It is important that Canada’s policy-makers continue to explore models for facilitating collaborative development and access to essential medicines, treatments, technologies and other innovations.

IP rights have sparked global discourse, especially in the area of patents, because they apply to everything from the medications and respirators for those who are sick, to the protective equipment required by health-care workers, to the vaccine(s) which we will all, ultimately, require, write Karima Bawa and Myra Tawfik. Image courtesy of Pixabay
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