Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, allow, or facilitate the negotiation or approval of any measure at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights, including the petition titled Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment, and Treatment of COVID-19 . (The petition was submitted by India and South Africa to suspend all intellectual property rights associated with COVID-19 innovations, such as vaccines.)
AfricaAsiaCardiovascular and respiratory healthChinaCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsEmergency medical services and trauma careFree trade and trade barriersIndiaInfectious and parasitic diseasesIntellectual propertyProperty rightsSouth AfricaTechnology transfer and commercializationTrade agreements and negotiationsU.S. and foreign investments
Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
USA117th CongressHR-3035| House
| Updated: 5/7/2021
Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, allow, or facilitate the negotiation or approval of any measure at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights, including the petition titled Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment, and Treatment of COVID-19 . (The petition was submitted by India and South Africa to suspend all intellectual property rights associated with COVID-19 innovations, such as vaccines.)
AfricaAsiaCardiovascular and respiratory healthChinaCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsEmergency medical services and trauma careFree trade and trade barriersIndiaInfectious and parasitic diseasesIntellectual propertyProperty rightsSouth AfricaTechnology transfer and commercializationTrade agreements and negotiationsU.S. and foreign investments