Duggan, Mark; Garthwaite, Craig; Goyal, Aparajita - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for pharmaceuticals that were compliant with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We combine pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered...