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<dc:title>117 HRES 1285 RH: Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives relating to a waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2022-09-28</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IV</distribution-code><calendar display="yes">House Calendar No. 127</calendar><congress display="yes">117th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. RES. 1285</legis-num><associated-doc role="report" display="yes">[Report No. 117–520]</associated-doc><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20220726">July 26, 2022</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S001172">Mr. Smith of Nebraska</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="B000755">Mr. Brady</cosponsor>) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name></action-desc></action><action display="yes"><action-date date="20220928">September 28, 2022</action-date><action-desc>Reported adversely from the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name>, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be printed</action-desc></action><legis-type>RESOLUTION</legis-type><official-title display="yes">Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives relating to a waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.</official-title></form><resolution-body style="traditional" id="HFC17F2B580C44568BA80730312B4E657"><section display-inline="yes-display-inline" section-type="undesignated-section" id="H04A0BF2C35B243D4BC623397EF276090"><enum/><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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—</text><paragraph id="H362D63EEF3214CE09214756AD7C4A01F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the 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 <quote>TRIPS waiver</quote>) that was agreed to on June 17, 2022, will increase global supply and delivery of COVID–19 vaccines;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HAF27EEEE89A5481DB8F551556E3E2597"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which COVID–19 vaccines have been destroyed due to their expiration and the period during which this occurred;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HE159C7DFABD54AB6BB02772BD82BA772"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the proposed expansion of the TRIPS waiver to cover intellectual property related to diagnostics and therapeutics (in this resolution referred to as the <quote>proposed TRIPS waiver expansion</quote>) will increase global supply and delivery of COVID–19 diagnostics or therapeutics;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H7170020732F74B598A605F06D244F106"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the TRIPS waiver or the proposed TRIPS waiver expansion will accelerate the end of the COVID–19 pandemic; and </text></paragraph><paragraph id="H07E5B4DEE68B47FCB8D4C94CB4CDA670"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the People’s Republic of China will not obtain access to patents or other intellectual property related to COVID–19 vaccines, diagnostics, or therapeutics, even if China is expressly excluded from the TRIPS waiver or the proposed TRIPS waiver expansion.</text></paragraph></section></resolution-body><endorsement display="yes"><action-date date="20220928">September 28, 2022</action-date><action-desc>Reported adversely from the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name>, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be printed</action-desc></endorsement></resolution> 

