International Patent Rights Regulation and its Effects on Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the effects of the international regulation of patent rights on pharmaceutical industry in India and to sum up the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement in India with regard to public health in developing countries. The patent rights regulation under the TRIPS Agreement (which all memebers of WTO have approached) and which has an important impact on pharmaceutical industry in developing countries and availibility of cheap pharmaceuticals in general are described in the first part. How India faced these challenges (introduction of extensive intellectual property rights) - analysis of Indian patent regulation and how local pharmaceutical industry managed to adopt to these changes and what are its prospects for the future is the content of the second part of the thesis. The third part is dedicated to the selected impacts on public health in the developing countries