India, South Africa, and other developing countries petitioned in October 2020 to waive TRIPS protection for COVID-19 patents. The Biden Administration supported the petition, and it was granted in a June 2022 vote of WTO TRIPS Council members. Under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of International Property , which was adopted in 1994, virtually all nations (including the U.S., China and Russia) agreed to provide basic substantive and procedural protections for patents and other IP rights. DO you think that the America patent system has become very weak ?
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