Hints and tips:
...“People needed those assurances to buy, because they were hyper aware of [the legal] risk,” said one IP lawyer working on the issues....
...US health campaigners’ assumptions that Angela Merkel was single-handedly blocking a waiver exploded when the new coalition government in Berlin adopted the same sceptical view....
...Within Europe, I’d pick Angela Merkel’s decision to close Germany’s nuclear power sector and Britain’s determination to make as rollingly a bad job of Brexit as it can....
...Angela Merkel has expressed opposition to the Biden administration’s proposal to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, and Norway’s Telenor has written off its entire $782m investment...
...Angela Merkel has expressed opposition to the Biden administration’s proposal to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, saying it would have “serious implications” for vaccine production...
...House that we will: launch an AI sandbox to trial new, faster approaches to help innovators get cutting edge products to market work at pace with the Intellectual Property Office to provide clarity on IP...
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, warned it would have “serious implications” for vaccine production worldwide and said the limiting factors in supply were “production capacities and the high-quality...
...We’re still highly sceptical about progress with the IP waiver, though there are some more hopeful noises about fisheries. At least they’re going to give it a shot....
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a two-day EU leaders’ summit in Porto, Portugal, that suspending intellectual property rights was no solution to supply shortages and called for a focus on ramping...
...Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent comments (here in German to avoid possible mistranslation) on the risk of having let India become a key supplier to the EU were clumsily phrased, but the underlying sentiment...
...But Angela Merkel, German chancellor, voiced her opposition....
...In the meantime, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, who immediately came out and opposed the US move, now looks like the villain that the Washington was fast becoming....
...The main focus of talk in town is the German elections, which are coming up on September 26, with Angela Merkel finally leaving the chancellery....
...The World Health Organization has called on members to engage with vaccine manufacturers to encourage IP sharing and tech transfers....
...There were “an awful lot of changes” that China had made to IP protections, he says; there are new and clear rules that China cannot force the transfer of technology from US companies to Chinese companies...
...They’re cheating on IP, they’re expanding in the Pacific, they need to be challenged. And it’s really quite striking. But you’re clearly not of that view....
...His point though is that while there is a role for intellectual property rights, knowhow should be able to flow between countries and now that China is building its own IP, it may be more ready to negotiate...
...Podcast of the day FT News in Focus: The multilateralist Shortly before his departure as FT editor, Lionel Barber conducted a rare interview with Angela Merkel....
...A battle between populisms Cas Mudde in the IPS Journal on why leftwing populism is proving to be a flop compared with the success of rightwing rivals....
...One EU official told the FT: “I don’t think we would be ready to support the US if at the end of the [IP] investigation they decide to go unilateral.”...
...It has received £8m in funding from Cambridge Innovation Capital and IP Group....
...That theme of the markets losing faith in central bankers and fretting about a US recession is further developed by Greg Ip in the WSJ....
...Twitter emailed users to say that the hackers may have sought their email or IP addresses, or phone numbers, which it recently began collecting....
...Numbers news In the WSJ, Greg IP nicely sums up how eurozone growth is responding to the let-up in austerity and less strangling monetary conditions....
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