The Lowest Common Denominator: The Quad Text on the TRIPS Waiver

Newsletter Edition #129 [The Curated Primer]

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Close to 18 months after South Africa and India, stormed the IP establishment seeking a temporary suspension of IP rules, a much-compromised, shrunken version of their proposal has emerged in the form of a compromise text agreed by the Quad members (the EU, the US, India and South Africa). This text which was leaked earlier this week, now looks simil…