In its recent extraordinary Assembly in November 2021, the WHO agreed to "launch a process to develop a historic global agreement on prevention, preparedness and response to pandemics", which leads us to raise the importance of having a global treaty on this issue, not only of course, in our condition as human beings, but from the point of view of our condition as lawyers dedicated to intellectual property.

On August 30, 2018, significant changes to California’s Proposition 65 warning regulations take effect. In the retail context, it requires businesses with 10 or more employees to warn individuals in California about products containing certain listed chemicals.