By Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, a group of fifteen industry and trade organizations sent a letter to five members of the Biden Administration, to express their strong support for the Administration’s work to leverage international mechanisms to help address COVID-19 and also for the Administration’s continued efforts to oppose “a problematic proposal at the World Trade Organization to waive IP global protections,” which would “remov[e] patent, industrial designs, copyright, and trade secret protection for any products and services so long as they can be tied to COVID-19.” The letter’s signatories included the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), Biotechnology Innovation…
