How harmful can government regulations and protectionism be? We provide evidence of a sizable negative impact of government interventions on population health. In 2012, the Russian government implemented a strategy to increase the affordability of pharmaceutical drugs and develop domestic...

On August 30, 2003, the member countries of the WTO adopted the Decision on Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. This Decision provides flexibility for the export of pharmaceutical products under compulsory license (which flexibility...

With this article I intend to provide a study of pharmaceutical trademarks mainly under European Union trademark legislation. Compared to other kinds of trademarks, the pharmaceutical ones present a particular set of legal problems. Among these, I address four specific issues that I consider to...