06/07/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Patent Office (EPO) announced on Monday 6 July the launch of a new platform to combat coronavirus. The platform is seeking to speed up the dissemination of patent information to researchers and policy makers in order to combat SARS-CoV-2. Thus, the first datasets published on this platform concern antiviral vaccines and therapeutic pharmaceuticals. More resources will be published in the coming weeks, covering diagnostics and medical technologies and devices, for example, the institution explains. For more information: https://bit.ly/2ZH7psX (PH)