So, layman question: will it increase moderna's vaccine availability? Or is it about something else entirely?
Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
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Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
#12> Beyond Moderna’s vaccine, there are other COVID-19 vaccines in development that may use Moderna-patented technologies. We feel a special obligation under the current circumstances to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible. Accordingly, while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.…
upon request we are also willing to license our intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines to others
How is that different from what they would be doing normally? Companies generally like to license their IP, it brings in lots of cash for little (extra) effort. Note that they don't claim to be offering reduced license fees in this part of their statement!
Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
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Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
#14> Beyond Moderna’s vaccine, there are other COVID-19 vaccines in development that may use Moderna-patented technologies. We feel a special obligation under the current circumstances to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible. Accordingly, while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.…
upon request we are also willing to license our intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines to others How is that different from what they would be doing normally? Companies generally like to license their IP, it brings in lots of cash for little (extra) effort. Note that they don't claim to be offering reduced license fees in this part of their statement!
Companies like Moderna that are currently using IP are not always willing to license it. Sometimes they prefer to keep it in-house and reserved for their own use.
Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
#15My understanding used to be that this will not change much on an immediate basis since the nano-particle delivery system + its manufacturing chain are quite complicated and not easily scalable. Does anyone know if this is not the case?
Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
#16https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/moderna-patents-covid-19-... "Moderna’s Pledge Not to Enforce the Patents on Their COVID-19 Vaccine Is Worthless" tldr...all the good stuff are trade secrets.
That article> This “invulnerable exclusivity” is harmless enough when it protects secret soda formulas and hamburger mystery sauces. It’s less cute when it blocks countries from using their legal right to manufacture and import lifesaving medicines.
This is introduced as if random countries have an established legal (rather than moral) right to manufacture these items covered by patent. I wasn’t able to find (in the article or my brain) the basis for the claim that there’s an established legal right to do so.
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#17The image here https://archive.is/Le9gr captures the patent divide, with Anglo-sphere and the West all-in for free markets, whilst Asia and Africa want the patents to be buried for the greater good.
As the crisis worsens in poorer countries, despite an unprecedented 20+ vaccines in deployment, it feels like a sick joke to see White dudes on my Twitter timeline post about "my pfizer versus your moderna".
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#18The image here https://archive.is/Le9gr captures the patent divide, with Anglo-sphere and the West all-in for free markets, whilst Asia and Africa want the patents to be buried for the greater good. As the crisis worsens in poorer countries, despite an unprecedented 20+ vaccines in deployment, it feels like a sick joke to see White dudes on my Twitter timeline post about "my pfizer versus your moderna".
>>White dudes
Since when did this become a race thing?
Re: Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
#19So, layman question: will it increase moderna's vaccine availability? Or is it about something else entirely?
Moderna will sue violators of their patents when they lost their primary income source.
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#20The image here https://archive.is/Le9gr captures the patent divide, with Anglo-sphere and the West all-in for free markets, whilst Asia and Africa want the patents to be buried for the greater good. As the crisis worsens in poorer countries, despite an unprecedented 20+ vaccines in deployment, it feels like a sick joke to see White dudes on my Twitter timeline post about "my pfizer versus your moderna".
>>White dudes Since when did this become a race thing?
It became a race thing when the USA and European powers used race as an explicit justification for the (attempted) rape and enslavement of pretty much the rest of the world.