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Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era
Watal, Jayashree; Dai, Rong - 2019 - Manuscript date: 28 March 2019
This WTO working paper studies availability and affordability of new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era … the introduction of product patents in pharmaceuticals affect the likelihood of pharmaceutical firms to launch new and … finds that introduction of product patent for pharmaceuticals in the patent law has a positive effect on launch likelihood …
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Illicit trade and infectious diseases
Beverelli, Cosimo; Ticku, Rohit - 2020 - Manuscript date: 23 November 2020
We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases. Our results imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317342
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Intellectual property provisions in regional trade agreements : revision and update
Valdes, Raymundo M.; McCann, Maegan - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 June 2014
This is a revision and update of "Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements" by Valdés and Runyowa (2012). This paper adjusts the methodology applied to assess the intellectual property (IP) provisions contained in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the aggregation of such...
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Special compulsory licences for export of medicines : key features of WTO members' implementing legislation
Kampf, Roger - 2015 - Manuscript date: July 2015
In 2003, the WTO General Council decided to provide an additional legal pathway for WTO Members with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector to access medicines. Two years later, in 2005, WTO Members unanimously agreed to give this mechanism, often referred to as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305598
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Innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO members : analytical review of Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) COVID-19 Vaccines Patent Landscape (VaxPaL)
Chiang, Ting-Wei; Wu, Xiaoping - 2022 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2022
), have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for inclusion in its Emergency Use Listing (EUL). The analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818093
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The shifting contours of trade in knowledge : the new "trade-related aspects" of intellectual property
Taubman, Antony - 2020 - Manuscript date: 9 August 2020
This paper charts the evolution and diversification of trade in knowledge that has taken place in the quarter-century since the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into force. Entirely new markets have come into being, potentially redefining the very character of 'trade'. The disruptive effect of digital...
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Patent-related actions taken in WTO members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Wu, Xiaoping; Khazin, Bassam Peter - 2020 - Manuscript date: 21 October 2020
COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303912
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Interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and its relevance to the implementation of the WTO Agreements
Wu, Xiaoping - 2017 - Manuscript date: 3 April 2017
The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been intensively debated at international, regional and national levels over the past decades. In essence, the debate is firstly about the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout...
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The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights : the evolution of thought underlying policy change
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E. - 2017 - Manuscript date: 6 September 2017
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis-à-vis intellectual property rights (IPRs) and associated anti-competitive practices in major jurisdictions over the past several decades. It focuses especially on the underlying process...
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Intellectual property and digital trade : mapping international regulatory responses to emerging issues
Meier-Ewert, Wolf R.; Gutierrez, Jorge - 2021 - Manuscript Date: 1 August 2020
This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...
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