All Posts Tagged With: "pharmaceutical patents still"
Pharmaceutical Patents - SICE
Patent Protection For Pharmaceuticals : A Platform For Investment, Markets And Improved Health In The Americas - SICE, March 1996
Excerpt: In this forum on policies affecting development and technology, I highlight the importance of the role of providing strong protection of intellectual property rights. In a study published in 1995 by the World Bank-affiliate — the International Finance Corporation (IFC) — it was concluded that "a country’s system of intellectual property protection seems to have a substantial effect in relatively high technology industries like chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery and electrical equipment on the kinds of technology transferred to that country and the amount of direct investment in that country … by Japanese and German, as well as U.S., firms."
The Motley Fool on Pharmaceutical Patents
You’re Only Hurting Yourself Thailand (Article regarding stance on pharmaceutical patents still held by Thailand) - Motley Fool, January 2007
Excerpt: When I was in grad school, we were repeatedly bombarded with examples of governments making idiotic, short-sighted moves that hampered the long-term health of their economies and citizens. And now it appears that Thailand has made just such a gaffe. On Monday, Thailand’s government announced that it was going to allow either the manufacture or importation of generic versions of Abbott’s (NYSE: ABT) HIV treatment Kaletra and Sanofi-Aventis’ (NYSE: SNY) blood clot drug Plavix, even though the drugs are still under patent protection and producing generic versions of them would be illegal in many countries.
African Liberty on Pharmaceutical Patents Still Enforced
Poverty and Sickness Won’t be Cured by Fighting Pharmaceutical Patents - African Liberty, June 2008
Excerpt: Last month, the World Health Organization’s governing body, the World Health Assembly (WHA), formally adopted a set of public policy recommendations for poor governments struggling with disease.