Not Much of a Waiver - The Leaked Draft Text of the TRIPS Waiver Compromise

Not Much of a Waiver - The Leaked Draft Text of the TRIPS Waiver Compromise Kang, Hyo Yoon Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-03-18 eng 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 Kang, Hyo Yoon COVID 19 TRIPS waiver Vaccines WTO 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/not-much-of-a-waiver/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220319-001323-0 220318 10.17176/20220319-001323-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)