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Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problem of Access to Medicines book cover

1st Edition

Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law The Unresolved Problem of Access to Medicines

By Jae Sundaram Copyright 2018
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

 1. Introduction,  PART I Foundation of Intellectual Property Laws, and IP in the Multilateral Trading System Introduction  2. A Jurisprudential Enquiry into the Justification of International IP Rights Protection, with Particular Reference to Pharmaceutical Patents,  3. Intellectual Property in the Multilateral Trading System: Forum Shifting, TRIPS Agreement, Doha Declaration and TRIPS Flexibilities,  4. Undermining TRIPS Flexibilities: FTAs, Bilateral Trade Agreements, EPAs, IIAs, TRIPS-Plus & Stoppage in Transit,  PART II TRIPS & Developing Countries: Implementation, Knowledge Economy and IP Policy Making  5. BRAZIL: Ambitious Missions and an Early Implementation,  6. CHINA: The Uneasy Transition,  7. INDIA: The Transition from Process to Product Patent,  8. SOUTH AFRICA: Against All Odds,  9. KENYA: Can Generics Still Reach the Needy?,  PART III TRIPS at What Cost?  10. TRIPS Agreement & the Future of Access to Affordable Medicines

Biography

Jae Sundaram is Senior Lecturer in International Trade and Maritime Law at the University of Buckingham, UK.

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