Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
The global pharmaceutical sector is highly patent intensive, and firms rely on product, process and formulation patents … products patented outside the country, can no longer produce such drugs due to the introduction of TRIPS-compliant patent … regimes in their countries. Least developed countries have an extension until 2016 to implement the pharmaceutical patent …