Title: Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives relating to the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This resolution requests that the President transmit certain information to the House of Representatives related to the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (known as the TRIPS waiver). In particular, the resolution requests information demonstrating that (1) the TRIPS waiver will increase global supply and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, (2) the waiver will accelerate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, or (3) China will not obtain access to patents or other intellectual property related to COVID-19 vaccines even if expressly excluded from the waiver.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1169 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1169

 Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House 
  of Representatives relating to the proposed waiver of intellectual 
 property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on 
         Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2022

  Mr. Smith of Nebraska submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House 
  of Representatives relating to the proposed waiver of intellectual 
 property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on 
         Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

    Resolved, That the President is requested to transmit to the House 
of Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the 
adoption of this resolution, copies of all documents, memoranda, 
advisory legal opinions, notes from meetings, audio recordings, records 
(including telephone and electronic mail records), correspondence, or 
other communications, or any portion of any such communications, to the 
extent that any such one or more items are within the possession of the 
President, that demonstrate--
            (1) the proposed waiver of intellectual property 
        commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on 
        Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (in this 
        resolution referred to as ``TRIPS waiver'') will increase 
        global supply and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines;
            (2) the proposed TRIPS waiver will accelerate the end of 
        the COVID-19 pandemic; or
            (3) the People's Republic of China will not obtain access 
        to patents or other intellectual property related to COVID-19 
        vaccines even if expressly excluded from the proposed TRIPS 
        waiver.
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