nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220319-001323-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220318s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220319-001323-0 doi eng 342 23 Kang, Hyo Yoon Author aut Not Much of a Waiver - The Leaked Draft Text of the TRIPS Waiver Compromise Kang, Hyo Yoon Verfassungsblog 2022-03-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Seventeen months after South Africa and India initiated the TRIPS waiver proposal, the negotiating “quad” (South Africa, India, US and the EU) is reported to have reached a compromise at the WTO. The text of the proposal was leaked this week. From a legal perspective, the outcome of the compromise is more muddled and confusing than clarifying, although it claims its aim to be the latter. As it presently stands, the text is not so much a waiver of TRIPS obligations than a modification of existing obligations and conditions of exemptions around patents, as well as an introduction of additional requirements. CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 TRIPS waiver Vaccines WTO Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/not-much-of-a-waiver/ raw object