The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law is pleased to announce that effective April 20, 2021, it has assumed stewardship…

Please join us and the American University Washington College of Law this Wednesday as they host an event for a one year retrospective of the OpenCovidPledge. April 28,…

“United Nations Headquarters” by United Nations Photo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 As an important part of our stewardship of the Open COVID Pledge, we are pleased…

We’re pleased to announce today that Creative Commons is taking on leadership and stewardship of the Open COVID Pledge. This transition is made with the strong support and…

Today, the Open COVID Pledge launched a new feature highlighting some of the valuable intellectual property (IP) that organizations around the world have committed to the fight against…

SAP, a European multinational software company and a provider of one of the largest enterprise software solutions in the world, today announced it is joining the Open COVID Pledge by…

Today, under the leadership of the World Health Organization, more than three dozen member countries and other organizations announced their support of the WHO’s Solidarity Call to Action.…

Giant data storage and management company Seagate Technology has taken the Open COVID Pledge, adopting the OCL-P v1.1 license for all of its patented technologies to help diagnose,…

According to statistics recently released by the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO), companies making the Open COVID Pledge were among the top acquirers of U.S. patents last year.  IBM,…

The Open COVID Pledge Coalition recognizes and salutes efforts from around the world complementary to our own that also encourage the free sharing of patents and copyrights in…

The Open COVID Pledge unites technology developers and manufacturers in sharing intellectual property to fight COVID-19. Our Pledgors collectively hold over 100k patents covering important innovations including crisis-critical…

The Open COVID Coalition is pleased to announce that Fujitsu Limited has made the Open COVID Pledge, freeing its intellectual property to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Fujitsu, one…

AT&T has joined the Open COVID Pledge, making its patents available to the public under the terms of our OCL-P 1.1 license for the purposes of facilitating innovations…

We’re happy to count NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a supporter of the Open COVID Pledge. Additionally, we’re excited to see that JPL has released the designs for…

Some good news: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has joined the Open COVID Pledge, making its novel test swab technology widely available free of licensing fees. By…

We’re happy to announce that Uber has joined the Open COVID Pledge and is making all of its patents available to the public, free of charge, for use…

Tech innovators commit to making their full collections of patents available to the public, free of charge, for use in ending and minimizing the effects of the COVID-19…

By: Diane Peters, Open COVID Coalition Steering Committee and General Counsel Creative Commons Today we published a new version of our original Open COVID License (OCL-PC 1.1), and…

April 7, 2020, 5 pm EDT For Immediate Release An international coalition of scientists and lawyers is calling on organizations to make their intellectual property freely available for…