On April 7, Jorge Contreras was featured on NPR’s “Academic Minute” podcast to discuss the Open Covid Pledge.
Excerpt:
“In early March 2020, along with news reports about the rapid spread of COVID-19 and its serious health effects, stories began to emerge that patents could hinder vaccine and drug research, as well as the manufacture and supply of products necessary to contain the pandemic and treat those with the disease. In response to this threat, a group of scientists, engineers and legal experts came together to create a legal framework that would enable organizations to make their patents broadly available in the fight against the pandemic. This framework was launched in April, 2020, as the Open COVID Pledge.
Click here to hear the full podcast,: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564572329/the-academic-minute
Jorge Contreras is a professor of law at the University of Utah, a member of the Open Covid Pledge Steering Committee, and a Research Fellow at American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property.
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