However, the facts are a little murkier. Before deciding to forgo a patent application, the organization had already committed to giving the formulation and production processes for the vaccine to several pharmaceutical companies for free. No one knows why the lawyers considered a patent application, but it seems likely that they would only have used it to prevent companies from making unlicensed, low-quality versions of the vaccine.
There is no sign that the foundation intended to profit from a patent on the polio vaccine. Although he was the first to produce a polio vaccine, Salk did not win the Nobel Prize or become a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Biotech Basics. Read about biotechnology. Industry Recognition. Get to know the outstanding people and companies BIO supports. Balancing intellectual property rights concerning the COVID 19 vaccine while serving the public good is the dilemma facing our global population today. Failure to strike a balance creates a conflict between those living in developing countries and those in high-income nations. Proponents believe that temporarily waiving intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines will help ramp up production.
Those countries opposing this concept argue that this would not result in increased production. What is involved Patents provide creators of new inventions, including innovative vaccines and medicines, with a limited-term monopoly. Specifically, patents provide inventors a year window, during which time other companies cannot reproduce the product.
The patent provides an incentive to invent and help recover the costs of research and development.
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