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law, technology, policy. latest:
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/12/1/lsaf012/8160132
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Matt Clancy
23 days ago
New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?
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Alt CDC (they/them)
2 months ago
Cool new research digs into đź’‰ purchasing contracts that pharma negotiated with South Africa Here's what they found:
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Law and power in pandemic negotiations: Policymaking via contract in South Africa's dealings with COVID-19 vaccine companies - PubMed
COVID-19 vaccine distribution was marked by deeply unequal access for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This article analyzes negotiations between government and pharmaceutical companies, through the c...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40700540/
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More Perfect Union
3 months ago
BREAKING: Tesla was just hit with a $329 million verdict in a trial over a fatal crash that a Miami jury found was caused by Tesla's defective autopilot.
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Matthew Kavanagh
3 months ago
Can voluntary deals ensure equitable vaccine access in a pandemic? Our new research w
@hji-sa.bsky.social
on South Africa’s COVID-19 negotiations shows no. Major policy made via private contract. Implications for global governance... 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
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Law and power in pandemic negotiations: Policymaking via contract in South Africa’s dealings with COVID-19 vaccine companies
COVID-19 vaccine distribution was marked by deeply unequal access for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This article analyzes negotiations between government and pharmaceutical companies, through th...
https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2025.2537688
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski
3 months ago
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/
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Trisha Clark
3 months ago
Another new
#NIH
Notice published today. In addition to the AI information referenced below, NIH is also instituting a new policy limiting the number of applications that NIH will consider per Principal Investigator per calendar year. It's included in this Notice.
#RAdminsky
#Research
#Medsky
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NIH issues new policy stating that it will not consider research grant applications “substantially developed” by AI to be original ideas of the applicant.
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NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html
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More Perfect Union
3 months ago
The co-founder of Palantir is backing a construction automation startup seeking to build AI powered heavy machinery that doesn't require workers. The company, Bedrock Robotics, was founded by three people who used to work at Waymo.
www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
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Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale Backs Bedrock Robotics To Automate Construction — Union Leader Calls It 'Misguided' - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder Joe Lonsdale is backing Bedrock Robotics, a construction automation startup.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/25/07/46462578/palantir-co-founder-joe-lonsdale-backs-bedrock-robotics-to-automate-construction-union-leader-calls-it-misguided
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James Packard Love
4 months ago
Article by
@abinader.bsky.social
on the efforts to address late disclosures of federal funding in US patents.
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Late disclosures of federal funding in US patents
ABSTRACT. Enacted primarily to encourage patents on federally funded inventions, an additional policy objective of the Bayh–Dole Act is to increase visibil
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/12/1/lsaf012/8160132
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The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
5 months ago
Now open access on FirstView: "Global Legal Environment for LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Public Health" by ‪@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social,
@abinader.bsky.social
,
@sharonannlynch.bsky.social
and team. The article analyzes politically and legally viable pathways to decriminalization.
#LGBTHealth
#HIV
#LGBTQIA
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James Packard Love
5 months ago
Earlier, 2023, memorandum to HHS on measures to include data on the costs of trials in ClinicalTrials.Gov
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Memorandum on measures to include data on the costs of trials in ClinicalTrials.Gov - Knowledge Ecology International
Clinicaltrials-dot-Gov-HHS-15Sep2023 From the memo: This memo provides a request that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), working through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), use it...
https://www.keionline.org/40783
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Melissa Barber
5 months ago
That's not to say that pharma won't try to - as ever - keep prices secret. Monthly re-upping of one of my top 5 favourite papers ever by
@cmorten.bsky.social
on why trade secret protections are often more vibes than actual law :
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4041556
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Mark Lemley
5 months ago
We just posted a major new study of AI models and books, showing that some (but not all) models memorize large portions of some (but not all) books after training on the books3 database With A. Feder Cooper and Amy Cyphert, among others
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Patent post expiry royalties return to SCOTUS. Blog by
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with link to the Atrium Medical cert petition:
patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...
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Formalism, Fictions, and Federalism: Post Expiry Royalties Return to SCOTUS
by Dennis Crouch I just read Atrium Medical's SCOTUS petition -- asking the court help resolve a circuit split involving …
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/05/46145.html
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The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
5 months ago
Now on FirstView: "Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond" by
@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social
,
@abinader.bsky.social
, Fatima Hassan, and Eric Friedman.
#COVID
#AIDS
#HealthLaw
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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O'Neill Institute
6 months ago
The Trump administration's push to dismantle
#USAID
undermines U.S. foreign policy & global health, argued
@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social
and
@abinader.bsky.social
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foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/04/u...
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Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous
The State Department isn’t ready to handle vital disease-prevention efforts worldwide.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/04/usaid-state-department-health-disease-united-states-trump-musk/
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Max Kozlov
6 months ago
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01361-z
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Thiru Balasubramaniam
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USTR Releases 2025 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement
WASHINGTON — Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2025 Special 301 Report on the adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcem...
https://ustr.gov/about/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2025/april/ustr-releases-2025-special-301-report-intellectual-property-protection-and-enforcement
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Holly Fernandez Lynch
6 months ago
Out today in
@jama.com
, a joint warning from AEREO,
@weareprimr.bsky.social
,
@aahrpp.bsky.social
, and CARE-Q, about how capped indirects and decimation of OHRP risk slowing research and making participants less safe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Preserving Research Ethics Oversight Amid Decimation of the Research Enterprise
This Viewpoint examines how research ethics oversight, particularly by institutional review boards, has been affected by expansive federal staffing and budget cuts.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2833415
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Mark Lemley
6 months ago
My panel with
@daniel-solove.bsky.social
,
@mariotrujillo.bsky.social
, and
@alexreevegivens.bsky.social
on DOGE, the Privacy Act, and how to protect privacy in our new authoritarian regime can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eQ...
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Webinar - Privacy DOGE and Trump 2
YouTube video by TeachPrivacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eQ5D9xUuc
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Mark Lemley
6 months ago
ICE is detaining US citizens despite proof of citizenship and despite the law being enjoined already
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
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Chris Morten
6 months ago
Brilliant essay on the perils of mass layoffs at federal agencies’ FOIA offices, by my friend and frequent collaborator
@reshmagar.bsky.social
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The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
6 months ago
This article, along with many others currently available in FirstView, will be in our upcoming issue "Research Integrity and Misconduct."
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Amy Kapczynski
6 months ago
🚨🚨 Just out - a letter from almost 900 Yale profs to our leaders, urging them to stand with us to defend the values of higher ed - and to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
. Please share!
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Matthew Kavanagh
6 months ago
Was great to have my colleagues Alice Kayongo and
@abinader.bsky.social
and visitor Michael Aboneka in our class on policy analysis for
@guglobalhealth.bsky.social
focused on advocacy strategies. Thank you!!
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Christine Farley
7 months ago
Unbelievably this mother managed to remain calm for her children in the face of heinous cruelty. And the bravery of the filmmaker! It’s clear who the criminals are.
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Heidi Li Feldman
7 months ago
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J_bcoMqt46L05As7GN4ZqH4j6XKeI-Dm4ytJPRFtrwo/edit?gid=287708862#gid=287708862
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Lisa L. Ouellette
7 months ago
The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives
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Mark Lemley
7 months ago
While Big Law cowers in fear of Trump, boutique firms are stepping up to condemn his unprecedented attack on the rule of law. Here is Lex Lumina's statement
www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex...
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Lex Lumina’s Statement on the President’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms — Lex Lumina PLLC
The President’s recent attacks on lawyers and law firms for daring to have represented the President’s personal enemies or causes that he and his supporters dislike are dangerous threats to the rule o...
https://www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex-luminas-statement-on-the-presidents-executive-orders-targeting-law-firms
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Mark McKenna
7 months ago
In case it wasn’t clear where we stand. We stand for the rule of law. As every lawyer must.
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Josh Landau
7 months ago
In the wake of the recent USPTO discretionary denial guidance, thought it was worth going back to this article from Alex Moss and Timi Iwayemi. Corruption from top to bottom.
prospect.org/power/trumps...
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Trump’s Patent Director Pressured Judges to Rule in His Law Firm’s Favor
Andrei Iancu’s policy decisions greatly benefited his business interests.
https://prospect.org/power/trumps-patent-director-pressured-judges-to-rule-in-his-law-firms-favor/
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Holly Fernandez Lynch
7 months ago
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
“Why are people going to be willing to contribute to science and enroll in these studies if they feel like the rug can be pulled out from under them at any time?” Fernandez Lynch told me. Answer: They won't.
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/trump-nih-clinical-trials-patient-safey/682217/
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Thiru Balasubramaniam
7 months ago
Reuters: "The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending."
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Exclusive: US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say
The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-financial-contributions-wto-trade-sources-say-2025-03-27/
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Alexandra Witze
7 months ago
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. đź§Ş
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y
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Georgetown Law
7 months ago
Today,
#GeorgetownLaw
Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025. [ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories:
bit.ly/4hSna6u
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Max Kozlov
7 months ago
The guidance also says that grants about South Africa and climate change should be terminated. It also outlines a new category of research to be cancelled: any project the NIH director or HHS deems unworthy. Also, starting Oct 1, terminations for "agency priorities" will no longer be appealable.
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O'Neill Institute
7 months ago
In Health Affairs, Andrew Twinamatsiko highlights how the Trump admin’s funding freeze and
#NIH
grant cuts jeopardize health care, research, and essential services—sowing confusion on the future of the nation’s health infrastructure.
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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Litigation Over Federal Funding Of Health Programs | Health Affairs Forefront
The Trump administration’s recent moves to curtail federal funding have transformed the nation’s health infrastructure and sown confusion as to the future of federal support for some of the most critical health services.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/litigation-over-federal-funding-health-programs
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Alex Abdo
7 months ago
JUST FILED: our new suit challenging the Trump administration's policy of deporting faculty and students for engaging in pro-Palestinian speech. Filed on behalf of
@aaup.bsky.social
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@mesa1966.bsky.social
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knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
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AAUP, Middle East Studies Association, Knight Institute Sue Over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup-middle-east-studies-association-knight-institute-sue-over-trump-policy-of-arresting-and-threatening-to-deport-students-and-faculty-for-lawful-speech
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7 months ago
Net prices for medicines inched up in last year’s fourth quarter after falling a year ago, analysis finds..
statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
#pharma
#biotech
#medicines
#prices
#wholesale
#Medicare
#biosimilars
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Net prices for medicines inched up in last year's fourth quarter after falling a year ago, analysis finds
Net prices that health plans paid for medicines rose a modest 0.4% in the fourth quarter, but that compared unfavorably with a 3% decline in the same period a year earlier.
https://statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/03/25/pharma-medicines-prices-pricing-biosimilars-obesity-medicare-wholesale/
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AAUP
7 months ago
BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.
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Alt NIH Bluesky đź§Ş
7 months ago
Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. 2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream. This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did. But it’s a good start from
@baldwin.senate.gov
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Holly Fernandez Lynch
7 months ago
"If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, and by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America."
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Stanford Law School
7 months ago
Stanford Law School Professor Mark Lemley was quoted by
@reuters.com
in "Trump's orders targeting law firms raise constitutional concerns, experts say." Read more here:
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump's orders targeting law firms raise constitutional concerns, experts say
The orders also may represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, they said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-orders-targeting-law-firms-raise-constitutional-concerns-experts-say-2025-03-08/
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Elizabeth Joh
7 months ago
College acceptances are rolling out right now and historically a significant percentage of university communities are international students. The question is whether they will come. (Many international students matriculate assuming they can go home over the holidays etc.)
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Nature Biotechnology
7 months ago
The puzzle of biologics manufacturing platform patents -
@dukelaw.bsky.social
go.nature.com/3Y0W45Q
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The puzzle of biologics manufacturing platform patents - Nature Biotechnology
The predominance of manufacturing process patents asserted in litigation by originator biologics companies against would-be biosimilar entrants has resulted in a number of Congressional and administra...
https://go.nature.com/3Y0W45Q
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Mark Lemley
7 months ago
Funny how things change. Here's Ford's CEO on how American car companies can compete with China's growing dominance in EVs: “The way we compete with them is to get access to their IP just the way they needed ours 20 years ago"
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will work with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to embed access plans in licensing agreements for early-stage medical technology. This is the most recent out of various commitments that the MPP has secured from licensors and funders of early-stage technologies.
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