Moving target

The LawSociety’s Michael Hawkins explains that IPrightsholders will have to adapt their legal strategies to keep their businesses running amidstthe virus pandemic

Michael Hawkins, the LawSociety of England

We have seen manyinstances in the UK and internationally where rightsholders are putting theirIP to the benefit of the wider community during Covid-19. Morecritically, pharmaceutical companies and researchers are heavily engaged in therace to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease, with numerous potentialleads identified in a very short space of time.