On Wednesday, May 5, US President Joe Biden announced his support for the suspension of patents on the COVID-19 vaccines. Although the United States government strongly believes in Intellectual Property protection, it supports accelerating the production and distribution of vaccines in order to challenge the pandemic situacion. " The extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. " United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, 2021.

The pharmaceutical industry and countries like France share their opposition to this idea, instead suggesting donations to the most disadvantaged nations.

Recently, our patent team published an article on this topic and related ones, in the prestigious Chambers magazine:https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/patent-litigation-2021/mexico/trends-and-developments/O7537