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

Ho, Cynthia M.

Access to medicine in the global economy : international agreements on patents and related rights / Cynthia M. Ho. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - xviii, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780195390124 ((hardback) : alk. paper) 0195390121 ((hardback) : alk. paper)

2010048464


Drugs--Patents.
Intellectual property (International law)
Pharmaceutical industry--Technological innovations.

K1519.D78 / H6 2011

346.04/86

 

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