Intellectual Eminent Domain

What’s happening? Pundits are calling the possibility of limiting patent protections for COVID vaccines a form of intellectual eminent domain.

Why is this important? It’s happened in other times in history, mostly around war time.

How will this be important? The issue hinges on whether federal funds were used to create the patent. If so, more likely to pull back patent protections.

Newsmax | A New Era of Intellectual Eminent Domain