Intellectual Property and “The Lost Year” of COVID-19 Deaths

Madhavi Sunder and Haochen Sun explain how Intellectual Property protections impacted the COVID-19 pandemic and the development, availability, and distribution of the COVID vaccines.

"The tradeoff — breakthrough innovation in exchange for monopoly rights that raise prices and keep critical know-how under lock and key — does not work in pandemic times."

Read more in Harvard International Law Journal.