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Pharmaceutical patent protection and world trade law : the unresolved problem of access to medicines
- Title
- Pharmaceutical patent protection and world trade law : the unresolved problem of access to medicines / Jae Sundaram.
- Author
- Sundaram, Jae
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xvi, 240 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores the current difficulties with pharmaceutical patents in the post-TRIPS era and suggests how working with international organizations may improve access to affordable medicines in developing countries. Patents, including pharmaceutical patents, enjoy extended protection for twenty years under the TRIPs Agreement. The Agreement has resulted in creating a two-tier system of the World Trade Organisation Member States, and its implementation has seen the price of pharmaceutical products skyrocket, putting essential medicines beyond the reach of the common man. The hardest hit populations come from the developing and least developed countries, which have either a weak healthcare system or no healthcare at all, where access to essential and affordable medicines is extremely difficult to achieve.
- Series Statement
- Routledge research in intellectual property
- Uniform Title
- Routledge-Cavendish research in intellectual property
- Subject
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994 April 15)
- Drugs > Patents
- Drug accessibility
- Patent laws and legislation
- Foreign trade regulation
- Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects
- Trademarks
- Health services accessibility
- Patents as Topic
- Legislation, Drug
- Pharmaceutical Preparations > economics
- Developing Countries > economics
- Health Services Accessibility
- trademarks
- Drugs
- Arzneimittel
- Arzneimittelversorgung
- Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht
- Medizinische Ethik
- Patentrecht
- Pharmazeutische Industrie
- Patentschutz
- Patents
- International trade
- Pharmaceuticals
- Intellectual property
- Medical ethics
- Genre/Form
- patents.
- Patents.
- Brevets d'invention.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- A jurisprudential enquiry into the justification of international IP rights protection, with particular reference to pharmaceutical patents -- Intellectual property in the multilateral trading system : forum shifting, TRIPS Agreement, Doha Declaration and TRIPS flexibilities -- Undermining TRIPS flexibilities : FTAs, RTAs, EPAs, TRIPS-plus and stoppage in transit -- Brazil : ambitious missions and early TRIPS implementation -- China : the uneasy transition -- India : the transition from process to product patent -- South Africa : against all odds -- Kenya : can generics still reach the needy? -- TRIPS Agreement and the future of acess to affordable medicines.
- ISBN
- 9781138288768
- 1138288764
- 9781315267692 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018000566
- OCLC
- on1019837054
- 1019837054
- SCSB-9038705
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library