by Nur Evin Mercan | Dec 2, 2022 | All, Covid-19, Intellectual Property, patents, pharmaceuticals, World Trade Organization
Overview of Intellectual Property Rights Intellectual property rights protect the inventions of an individual’s creativity by protecting them under the general categories of copyright law and industrial property law. Copyright law focuses on the creative work of...
by Katherine Dolgenos | Mar 23, 2022 | All, Asia, China, Covid-19, Cybersecurity, Human Rights, Internet Law, National Security
After initially downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and preventing medical professionals from speaking out, the Chinese government reversed course and acted swiftly to stop the virus from spreading. The government’s public health measures included extensive data...
by Garrett May | Sep 27, 2021 | All, Covid-19, Healthcare, Philhippines
Filipinos have long been a mainstay of the immigrant population in the United States, with the Republic of the Philippines itself perpetuating a prominent culture of migration, maintaining 2.2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) across the world as of 2019. Like...
by Mark Rook | Mar 22, 2021 | Africa, All, Covid-19, Human Rights, Refugee Law and Policy
Today, the global refugee crisis is more pressing than ever before. As of mid-2020, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a staggering 80 million, comprised mostly of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees settled into host countries....
by Alessandra Palazzolo | Dec 30, 2020 | All, Covid-19, Intellectual Property, Trade
Tweet When the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) reconvenes in 2021, it will continue to consider a proposal to temporarily waive some provisions of the TRIPS Agreement—a 1995 agreement...
