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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Pharmaceutical patents"”.
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PHARMACEUTICAL PATENTS AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN GLOBAL PANDEMICS. MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE OR MUTUALLY REINFORCING? A POST COVID-19 INQUIRY INTO THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
La pandemia di COVID-19 ha colpito il mondo nel 2020, causando una crisi sanitaria ed economica senza precedenti. Le profonde disuguaglianze che hanno caratterizzato la distribuzione dei vaccini tra gli Stati hanno riacceso dibattiti mai sopiti sul ruolo e sugli effetti che la protezione …
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An examination of South Africa’s efforts at patent system reform: trips flexibilities fully appropriated for public health needs?
… Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS)? Patents law and access to medicines are two areas which are not new to South African IP law. Since the late 1990s when the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was at its peak, there has been a tensed relationship between IP, through patents, and …
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Promoting public health using competition law: applying the essential facilities doctrine to increase access to drugs in South Africa
… is drug prices6. The drug prices are set by pharmaceutical companies that have invested money into research and development that leads to medical discoveries.In order to recover research and development expenditures, the pharmaceutical companies patent their ideas to exclude other …
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Is the TRIPS Agreement and its' safeguards still a stumbling block in fulfilling the right to health and if so what should be done?
… hurdles to overcome is the patentability of pharmaceuticals in the health sector; such patents are undoubtedly limiting the availability and affordability of the life saving anti retroviral medicines (hereinafter ARV's) required to treat the disease. If we are to combat HIV/ AIDS and other …
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Let's not wait until a crisis for change to occur: a critical analysis of patent law in South Africa and its role in (not) fulfilling the constitutional right to health
… extracts lessons from scholars who suggest pharmaceutical companies must embody the notions of communitarian ethic as a means of replacing a profit-centred approach with a community approach when setting prices. The thesis suggests such a communitarian ethic be applied as a solution that …