Essays about: "compulsory licences"
Found 5 essays containing the words compulsory licences.
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1. Tipping Markets : An analysis of the Commission's proposal for a Digital Markets Act
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The particular characteristics and practices of digital platforms have given rise to the phenomenon of “tipping”, where one platform provider takes the whole market. There has been a growing concern among competition law regulators and enforcers that the traditional ex-post antitrust instruments cannot remedy the distortion of competition it causes in digital markets. READ MORE
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2. Pharmaceutical Patents, Right to Health and Access to Essential Medicines: A Human Rights Critique
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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3. Conflict Or Flexibility? Pharmaceutical Patents, Access to Medicines and the Role of Compulsory Licences
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : International law related to patents, on the one side, and human rights, on the other, both constitute interesting areas of law on their own. From time-to time the two distinct fields of international law intertwine. A tragic but highly relevant example is the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. READ MORE
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4. Why compulsory licensing of genetically modified food will not be a possible way of fighting world hunger
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Over 800 million people in the developing world are affected by chronic hunger today. Hunger reduction is necessary for accelerating development and poverty reduction. It has been argued that genetically modified food (GM food) could be the solution to the third world hunger problem. READ MORE
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5. Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Products & Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries
University essay from Ekonomiska institutionenAbstract : For many years pharmaceutical patents and their impact on prices have been at the centre of the international debate over insufficient access to lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines in developing countries. The conflict has largely revolved around the implementation of an intellectual property system in the developing world, subsequent the adaptation of the TRIPS Agreement, which has made a 20 year pharmaceutical patent protection mandatory for these countries and consequently contributed to high drug prices for patented medicines as well as limited the use of generic drugs. READ MORE
