Essays about: "access to essential medicines"

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  1. 1. Access patented vaccines in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Tiia Forstén; [2021]
    Keywords : Trade law; Patent law; Intellectual Property Right; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to describe and analyze three different solutions on how to make vaccines for COVID-19 available from a patent law perspective under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Under the TRIPS, patent law provides exclusive rights for vaccine inventors to prevent or stop others from commercially exploiting the patented invention for 20 years. READ MORE

  2. 2. Medical Patent Protection Impacts on Access to Medicine in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Jingtian Chen; [2014]
    Keywords : access to medicines in China; medical patent protection; right to health; TRIPS flexibilities; TRIPS-plus; compulsory license; generics.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Along with the interrelation between medical patent right, the generics impacts and the right to access to medicines, which as one of intersection issues between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Human Rights (HR), has drawn more and more attention under the international society, the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health has reaffirmed the flexibilities of the Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines in 2001. Considering the TRIPS flexibilities importance on promoting access to medicines in the most developing and the least developed countries, the thesis basically checks how medical patent rights impact on the access to medicines in China and how China has utilized the TRIPS flexibilities in recent years. READ MORE

  3. 3. Pharmaceutical Patents, Right to Health and Access to Essential Medicines: A Human Rights Critique

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Ines Lasic; [2013]
    Keywords : human rights; intellectual property; pharmaceutical patens; TRIPS; right to health; access to essential medicines; developing countries; neglected diseases; counterfeited drugs; compulsory licences; generic medicines; Health Impact Fund; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Until recently, the areas of patent law and human rights law were treated separately. The tensions between pharmaceutical patents and the human right to health could be felt already in the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS pandemic broke out and the pharmaceutical company that discovered a drug which could be used to treat this disease decided to patent it and set the price so high, that it was impossible for most people living in poor countries, where the disease was most prevalent, to access them. READ MORE

  4. 4. Access to Medicines Through Regionally Restricted Licenses

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Rosell; [2012]
    Keywords : Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Importance of the business and human rights field for solving the conflict between pharmaceutical patents and the provision of access to medicines. The author suggests an original approach named Regionally Restricted Licenses as a way to solve the conflict and provide access to essential medicines in a systematic and sustainable manner... READ MORE

  5. 5. Patent right and access to medicine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Cadian Cao; [2011]
    Keywords : Human rights; Intellectual property law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The reasons for the lack of access to essential medicines are manifold, but in many cases the high price of drugs is a barrier to needed medicines. The unaffordable prices of drugs are often the result of strong intellectual property protection. READ MORE