Competere celebrates World Intellectual Property Day
Competere, together with 105 other think tanks and advocacy organizations in 50 countries, celebrates World Intellectual Property Day. Property Rights Alliance launches an open letter addressed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Director-General Daren Tang. >> READ THE LETTER << PROPERTY RIGHTS ALLIANCE CELEBRATES WORLD IP DAY, LAUNCHES OPEN LETTER TO WIPO WASHINGTON, DC – […]
Joint coalition to oppose a TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines
Compete joins Property Right Alliance in opposing a TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines. GLOBAL COALITION JOINS PRA IN OPPOSING A TRIPS WAIVER FOR COVID-19 VACCINES WASHINGTON, DC, 3/7/2022 – On Monday the Property Rights Alliance (PRA), along with 29 partner organizations from 15 countries around the globe, sent a […]
Intellectual propriety rights: Competere joins the international coalition on the protection of vaccines licenses
Competere and a global coalition of thinktanks call on governments to protect the innovation system that has delivered multiple new Covid vaccines and therapeutics in highly compressed timescales. We are an informal coalition of civil society organisations that believes that continued collaboration between governments, international organisations, the private sector, and civil society is the fastest […]
IP & Patents to Save Europe
Growing complaints about intellectual property rights only divert attention from the well-known problems about European vaccination programs: from vaccine uncertainty to local bureaucracy. Policy makers should focus on this, rather than jeopardizing the actual progress being made. The analysis by Pietro Paganini, Temple University of Philadelphia, and Philip Stevens, Geneva Network, on Formiche: READ THE […]
Overcoming Obstacles to Medicines Access – Toward the 2020 World Health Assembly
Overcoming Obstacles to Medicines Access Joint policy recommendations to the 2020 World Health Assembly Competere is part of an international coalition of public policy research institutes and think tanks that believes that collaboration, open trade and innovation is crucial to the response to Covid-19. READ THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS – LEGGI LE NOSTRE RACCOMANDAZIONI >> As […]