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Intellectual Property and Public Health : Meeting the Challenge of Sustainability

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2014

of medicines to the world’s population on a sustainable footing; gaps that are exacerbated by the present trend toward … system could require some modification to the WTO TRIPS Agreement, but this should not be a determinative factor in …

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TRIPS and Human Rights : Preliminary Reflections

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2014

(TRIPS). Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have always reflected a balancing of general public interests and private … and artists. While the balance struck in the TRIPS Agreement is flawed, it is capable of flexible interpretation and … the relationship between human rights and the TRIPS Agreement. The observations in this paper reflect the preliminary …

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Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

Valdes, Raymundo; Runyowa, Tavengwa - 2012

force of the WTO TRIPS Agreement. A significant proportion of those RTAs contain some type of IP provision, but the number …

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Tradable Patent Rights

Ayres, Ian; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2014

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of...

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Intellectual Property Rights in World Trade

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2012

is known as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As a subject of international regulation, intellectual … property had not been overlooked. In fact, it was perhaps the first element of world trade subject to truly multilateral …

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Opening Dialogue on Intellectual Property

Geller, Paul Edward - 2016

This dialogue, between a philosopher and a lawyer, dramatizes the economic analysis of intellectual property critically. To start, with a stylized example of such property, it illustrates problems that the law has to address as cultural goods, such as works and inventions, tend to become public...

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Indian Patent Law and TRIPS : Redrawing the Flexibility Framework in the Context of Public Policy and Health

Unni, V.K - 2015

The transformation of Indian patent law after the country's accession to the World Trade Organization had been keenly … watched by scholars around the world. This paper deals with the various stages involved in the process and how India tried to … utilise the available flexibilities within TRIPS Agreement to safeguard public interest …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Distance to the Frontier and R&D

Della Malva, Antonio; Santarelli, Enrico - 2014

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are a key driver of economic growth as they provide agents with incentives to invest in Research and Development (R&D). The importance of IPRs should however vary when one moves along the technological frontier as firms can rely upon other mechanisms (i.e....

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The North's Intellectual Property Rights Standard for the South?

Lai, Edwin L.-C; Qiu, Larry D. - 2015

We build a multi-sectoral North-South trade model to analyze international intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. By comparing the Nash equilibrium IPR protection standard of the South (the developing countries) with that of the North (the developed countries), we find that the former is...

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A History of Access to Medicine Through the Lens of Patent Perspectives

Ho, Cynthia M. - 2014

This chapter provides a broader view of the development of international laws impacting the protection of drugs from the lens of patents as either a privilege or a right. In particular, this chapter demonstrates how domestic and international laws and policies impacting access to medicine is a...

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