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Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problem of Access to Medicines

Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problem of Access to Medicines

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

General Law

ISBN10: 0367590913
ISBN13: 9780367590918
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Patents, including pharmaceutical patents, enjoy extended protection for twenty years under the TRIPs Agreement. The Agreement has resulted in creating a two-tier system of the World Trade Organisation Member States, and its implementation has seen the price of pharmaceutical products skyrocket, putting essential medicines beyond the reach of the common man. The hardest hit populations come from the developing and least developed countries, which have either a weak healthcare system or no healthcare at all, where access to essential and affordable medicines is extremely difficult to achieve.

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