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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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Legally speaking, patent pledges are comparable to the open source software licenses that underlie much of the world’s technology infrastructure and the Creative Commons licenses that make billions of online images, videos and other content freely available (both discussed here ). Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach

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It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. Moreover, it imposes additional restrictions on use of compulsory licenses. Moreover, Brazil’s new compulsory license law models another critical feature that domestic laws should have – a way around data exclusivity.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

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The first pathway is requiring funding recipients to use out-licensing to alleviate scarcity. Contractual language would obligate the recipient to produce any resulting drug in sufficient supply to meet public health needs during the relevant public health crisis. The second pathway is that of a dormant license.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

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Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. This ascension of private IP holders in the pandemic was accompanied by a retreat from the global stage by powerful public actors.

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Aiberry Secures $8M in Seed Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings

Healthcare IT Today

The new funds, which bring total funding to $10M, will be used to accelerate adoption of the Aiberry platform, which uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health disorders by analyzing what is being said, the speech patterns being used and even subtle changes in facial expressions.

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Unseen Scars: The Devastating Impact of Corruption on Mental Health Systems in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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Low and middle-income countries (LMICs), home to 80% of people with mental illnesses, should prioritize strengthening their mental health systems. Yet, funding for mental health is grossly inadequate. The mental health sector is further burdened by systemic discrimination and human rights violations.

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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. Esquivel says, “ixlayer partners with CLIA-accredited laboratories and performs a rigorous vetting process of their validations protocols and operational capabilities from the licensing perspective on a state-by-state basis.

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