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.