WTO Elects New TRIPS Council Chair, Talks COVID IP Waiver
World Trade Organization members on the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights elected Thailand's Pimchanok Pitfield as chair of the council for the next year during the March 16-17 council meeting, the WTO said. During the meeting, WTO…
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members also discussed whether to extend the TRIPS decision (see 2206170010) to cover COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, a decision that had a deadline in December but which has been pushed back twice and is now scheduled for the next TRIPS council meeting in June. Current council chair Lansana Gberie of Sierra Leone said that members should "plan well in advance if they want to achieve results" in the coming months.