I have intuitions that lifting patents for the approved COVID-19 vaccines would do little as the technology is a higher barrier then just licensing the patents. It feels to me like calls for opening up patents mostly come out of political reflexes without any underlying analysis of the impacts. I'm however open to updating to a more informed view if someone looked into the issue deeper. Has anyone a good grasp on the issue?
My impression is similar to yours - those who are advocating to break the patents are doing so because they don't like patents and this is a high-profile topic to use for that agenda. I have seen no reasoned, logical path whereby the patents are the main concern.
I have intuitions that lifting patents for the approved COVID-19 vaccines would do little as the technology is a higher barrier then just licensing the patents. It feels to me like calls for opening up patents mostly come out of political reflexes without any underlying analysis of the impacts. I'm however open to updating to a more informed view if someone looked into the issue deeper. Has anyone a good grasp on the issue?