Compulsory Drug Licensing
February 12th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
Compulsory Drug Licensing Disastrous - Denver Post, March 2008
Excerpt: Compulsory licenses grant third parties permission to produce, use, or sell a patented product prior to the patent’s expiration. But compulsory licenses won’t do much to alleviate the extreme poverty that is actually responsible for keeping drugs from poor people. Instead, such policies will have a disastrous effect on public health worldwide.