Access to Medicine in the Global Economy
International Agreements on Patents and Related Rights
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 April 2011
- ISBN 9780195390124
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 236x155x33 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Access to medicine is a topic of widespread interest. However, some issues that impact such access are presently inadequately understood. In particular, international laws require most nations to provide patents on drugs, resulting in premium prices that limit access. In Access to Medicine in the Global Economy, Professor Cynthia Ho explains such laws and their impact for a diverse group of readers, from scholars and policy makers to students in a variety of disciplines.
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Access to medicine is a topic of widespread interest. However, some issues that impact such access are presently inadequately understood. In particular, international laws require most nations to provide patents on drugs, resulting in premium prices that limit access. In Access to Medicine in the Global Economy, Professor Cynthia Ho explains such laws and their impact for a diverse group of readers, from scholars and policy makers to students in a variety of disciplines. This book explains and interprets important international agreements, beginning with the landmark Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), but also including more recent free trade agreements and the pending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Professor Ho addresses controversial topics, such as when a nation can provide a compulsory license, as well as whether a nation may suspend in-transit generic goods. The book also discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the marketplace and provides strategies for minimizing the harm of such rights. Clear explanations and diagrams, frequently asked questions, and case studies make these topics accessible to any reader. The case studies also provide a theory of patent perspectives that helps explain why access to medicine, though a universal goal, remains elusive in practice. The book aims to provide an important first step toward eventual workable solutions by promoting a better understanding of existing and future laws that impact access to medicine.
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I. Background 1. From Conception to Commercial Success 2. A Limitation on the Patent Right to Exclude "Parallel Imports": An Introduction to International Exhaustion II. The Current Framework 3. An Introduction to TRIPS 4. Freedom Under TRIPS: India as an Example 5. Compulsory Licensing Under TRIPS: An Introduction 6. Compulsory License Case Study: An Introduction to Competing Patent Perspectives 7. Complicated Compulsory Licenses: The Waiver/Article 31bis "Solution" III. The Evolving Framework 8. An Overview of "TRIPS-Plus" Standards 9. Beyond Patents: Protecting Drugs Through Regulatory Laws 10. Suspensions of In Transit Generic Drugs: A Case Study of Competing Perspectives 11. A Historical View of Access to Medicine Through the Lens of Patent Perspectives 12. Looking Towards the Future
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