Revised TRIPS waiver proposal: Three-year time frame, largely same scope

A revised proposal for how to waive certain World Trade Organization intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines and medicines, which is likely to be the basis of text-based negotiations, does not meaningfully change the scope of what would be covered or which provisions waived, but does add a time frame of three years, according to a copy published last week. The co-sponsors circulated the new version on Friday ahead of an informal meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of...