Access to medicine in the global economy : international agreements on patents and related rights

Access to medicine in the global economy : international agreements on patents and related rights / Cynthia M. Ho.

The issue of how patents impact medicine has increased in significance within the last decade. The book provides an explanation of the current international infrastructure and explains how competing patent perspectives play a thus far unacknowledged role in promoting distortion and confusion.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ho, Cynthia M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights > (1994 April 15)
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994 April 15)
Drugs > Patents.
Intellectual property (International law)
Pharmaceutical industry > Technological innovations.
Pharmaceutical industry > Technological innovations
Drugs
Patents
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Table of Contents:
  • From conception to commercial success
  • A limitation on the patent right to exclude : an introduction to international exhaustion
  • An introduction to TRIPS
  • Freedom under TRIPS : India as an example
  • Compulsory licensing under TRIPS : an introduction
  • Compulsory license case study : an introduction to competing patent perspectives
  • Complicated compulsory licenses : the waiver/article 31bis solution
  • An overview of TRIPS-plus standards
  • Beyond patents : protecting drugs through regulatory laws
  • Suspensions of in-transit generic drugs : a case study of competing perspectives
  • A history of access to medicine through the lens of patent perspectives
  • Looking toward the future.

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