Human rights have been diffused by waves of globalisation that also swell the economic forces of trade liberalisation so that they include diverse multilateral regimes such as the international intellectual property system (TRIPS). This article considers this system and identifies problems with TRIPS and the way it affects individuals’ ability to access medicine and consequently to realise the human right to health. The case studies of India, Thailand and Mozambique demonstrate that the existing TRIPS system is insufficient for progressive realisation of the human right to health and enable us to formulate criteria for a better system. The criteria include an ability to balance providing consumers with essential medicine and innovators, oft...
The monopoly enjoyed by pharmaceutical manufacturers, resulting from the protection of intellectual ...
Summary: The purpose of this article is to examine the fundamental relationship between intellectual...
Magister Legum - LLMThe underlying rational behind the protection of intellectual property rights is...
Human rights have been diffused by waves of globalisation that also swell the economic forces of tra...
International law is not a homogeneous corpus of rules, inasmuch different regulatory systems often ...
Any system for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has three main kinds of distrib...
The privileges arising from patent protection on pharmaceutical products often prevent the full rea...
In the past several years, the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on access to medicines ...
The concept of public healthcare has perennially involved the institution of measures that are neces...
The reasons for the lack of access to essential medicines are manifold, but in many cases the high p...
This Article critically examines the proliferation of international legal agreements addressing glob...
In order to address the immense public health inequity in trade and patent law practices, the World ...
Access to medicines is the lynchpin to realizing a range of human rights, public health and developm...
Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of inte...
In this introduction we briefly review the literature on intellectual property rights and access to ...
The monopoly enjoyed by pharmaceutical manufacturers, resulting from the protection of intellectual ...
Summary: The purpose of this article is to examine the fundamental relationship between intellectual...
Magister Legum - LLMThe underlying rational behind the protection of intellectual property rights is...
Human rights have been diffused by waves of globalisation that also swell the economic forces of tra...
International law is not a homogeneous corpus of rules, inasmuch different regulatory systems often ...
Any system for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has three main kinds of distrib...
The privileges arising from patent protection on pharmaceutical products often prevent the full rea...
In the past several years, the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on access to medicines ...
The concept of public healthcare has perennially involved the institution of measures that are neces...
The reasons for the lack of access to essential medicines are manifold, but in many cases the high p...
This Article critically examines the proliferation of international legal agreements addressing glob...
In order to address the immense public health inequity in trade and patent law practices, the World ...
Access to medicines is the lynchpin to realizing a range of human rights, public health and developm...
Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of inte...
In this introduction we briefly review the literature on intellectual property rights and access to ...
The monopoly enjoyed by pharmaceutical manufacturers, resulting from the protection of intellectual ...
Summary: The purpose of this article is to examine the fundamental relationship between intellectual...
Magister Legum - LLMThe underlying rational behind the protection of intellectual property rights is...