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without the patent owner's authorization by issuing a compulsory license (CL). In the pharmaceuticals space, governments have … before patent expiry, increasing the supply and reducing the price of patented pharmaceuticals domestically. This paper … evaluates the three primary barriers to employing compulsory licenses for pharmaceuticals underscored by members during TRIPS …
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This article investigates interpretative difficulty in compulsory licensing dispute by taking the Thailand case of imposition on medicines during 2007 to 2008 as a model for our study and consideration. The country’s actions are arguably unique, aggressive and direct as per TRIPS wording which...
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Under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) all parties to the agreement are allowed flexibility in issuing licenses for manufacturing pharmaceutical drugs, in line with their public policy objectives. The licenses may be issued under certain conditions,...
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Pharmaceutical companies often replace prescription drugs that are already on the market with modified versions that have the same active pharmaceutical ingredient. On the surface, such activity seems benign and perhaps even salutary. Nonetheless, antitrust litigation has revealed that firms...
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Pharmaceutical drugs are often hailed as the poster child for the proposition that patents foster accelerated rates of innovation. This sentiment stems, in large part, from the belief that pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) entails significant costs and resources. I argue that if the...
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The current patent system is muddied with manifest muck. Even those that revere its relevance for R&D intensive sectors such as pharmaceutical drugs, admit of its various failings, particularly when it comes to incentivising research into neglected diseases. A number of alternative innovation...
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The pharmaceutical market in Europe, in its present circumstances, is not organized according to the principles of free trade to which other products are subjected. Under this situation, the owners of trade-marks have tried to develop price and market strategies consistent with their interests...
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technical fields (the “pipeline” theory), this study rebuts the pipeline theory. Specifically, the study shows that women law …
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Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
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