IP waiver supporters miffed by lack of text-based talks, U.S. focus on vaccines

Despite the stated willingness of many World Trade Organization members to move to text-based negotiations on the proposed waiver of some intellectual property commitments for COVID-19 products, they have not yet done so, proponents of the waiver lamented on Wednesday, while also taking issue with the U.S. focus on vaccines to the exclusion of pandemic-related diagnostics and therapeutics. Negotiations on the waiver, which would allow countries to forgo some obligations under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights,...