The world might have avoided the emergence of the new Covid-19 variant,
that seems to be more infectious than Delta, by removing the
artificial obstacles to faster manufacture of vaccines.
There are threats of legal action against several countries which are
blocking this: Canada, the U.K., Norway, and Germany.
The term "intellectual property" is a bogus concept which conflates
several disparate kinds of imposed monopoly, of which patent law is
just one. These laws are so different from each other that a
statement which generalizes about all of them, as that term leads
people to do, always spreads confusion.
Please join me in absolutely refusing to use the term.