All Posts Tagged With: "drug patents strong"
Duke Law and Technology Review: Strong Drug Patents
Facilitating Access of AIDS Drugs While Maintaining Strong Drug Patent Protection - iBrief, December 2001
Excerpt: The AIDS pandemic has thrust the subject of patent protection into the spotlight, a spotlight that has attracted the attention of broad audience including interested parties from the political, legal, and medical communities. Can the United States’ scheme of strong patent protection for pharmaceutical products withstand the increased attention?
Strong Drug Patent Problem
What Strong Drug Patents Problem - National Review, May 2004
Excerpt: As the world’s health experts gather in Geneva today for the World Health Assembly, it is time to assess the main AIDS debate that has raged for all of this decade. Without clarity on the problems of the spread of HIV AIDS there can be no hope of a solution.
Drug Patents Under Assault
Assaulting Strong Drug Patents - Global Health Council, January 2005
Excerpt: In recent years, generic drug companies located in India and other developing markets have launched an all-out assault on the drug patent system that locks them out of the most lucrative first-world markets. What they have not achieved in their science labs and their manufacturing floors they hope to make up in the courtrooms, in the press, and inside the halls of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Strong Drug Patents and Pricing
Fair Drug Prices and the Patent System: An Argument for Strong Drug Patents - Ingenta Connect
Extract: This paper uses John Rawls’ theory of justice to defend the patent system against charges that it has an unfair effect on access to medications, from the perspective of national and international justice. The paper argues that the patent system is fair in a national context because it respects intellectual property rights and it benefits the least advantaged members of society by providing incentives for inventors, investors, and entrepreneurs. The paper also argues that the patent system is fair in an international context, provided that developed nations take steps to help disease-stricken countries secure internal justice. Fairness in a national or international context also requires that the patent system should include emergency exceptions to deal with short-term inequities.
Pharmaceutical Patents PDF from Innovation.org
The Value of Strong Drug Patents & Intellectual Property Protection - Innovation.org
Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln said that patents “added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.” But, it was not genius alone that Lincoln and our founding fathers desired from a patent system. Rather, their objective was innovation. Innovation is why we protect intellectual property.