Essays about: "medical patent protection"
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1. Protection of Traditional Medical Knowledge in the Patent System: Is There Room?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Traditional knowledge (TK) is a vital component of the lives and wellbeing of many traditional communities or groups worldwide. The value of TK extends to numerous aspects of life including the health sector. In Africa, up to 80% of the population use traditional medicine or employ medicinal use of indigenous plants. READ MORE
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2. A Skinny Label - The intersection of EU competition law and patent law, and the abuse of dominance by the enforcement of second medical use patents
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : EU competition law is the safeguard of the functioning of the internal market, and not many fields of law other than patent law can delimit the scope of competition law. A patent’s value is based upon an exclusive right to the invention and product as protected by the patent. READ MORE
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3. Medical Patent Protection Impacts on Access to Medicine in China
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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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. Moral exclusions in European biotechnology patent law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : Biotechnology patent law raises moral issues since it concerns living material and the European Biotech Directive therefore contains exclusions for inventions that are contrary to “ordre public” or morality under Article 6. The purpose of this paper is to discover the scope of the moral exclusion in the Human, Animal and Plant fields of biotechnology patent law and to discuss the problems regarding the specified moral exclusions found in Article 6(2) of the Biotech Directive. READ MORE
