Leveraging Intellectual Property Law to Enhance Kenya’s Manufacturing Capacity in the Corona Virus Disease (“COVID 19”) Era
Introduction On 29th March 2020, The Ministry of Health (“MoH”) indicated that the government had initiated plans to manufacture Protective Personal Equipment (“PPE”) materials locally for self-sustainability.[2] This pronouncement intimated the possibility of enhancing local manufacturing capacity. The government’s intervention…
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Leveraging Intellectual Property Law to Enhance Kenya’s Manufacturing Capacity in the Corona Virus Disease (“COVID 19”) Era
By Perpetua Mwangi* and Chrispin Bosire* “The World can be happy that scientific resources have been mobilized so quickly without capitulating to false IP claims…”[1] -Brook Baker Introduction...
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