Umfang:
xvi, 240 pages
,
25 cm
ISBN:
1138288764
,
9781138288768
Serie:
Routledge research in intellectual property
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781315267692
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Accord sur les aspects des droits de propriété intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce : 1994
;
Arzneimittelversorgung
;
Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht
;
Patentrecht
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