Essays about: "pharmaceutical patents"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words pharmaceutical patents.

1. 21. The Use and Abuse of Patents – Evergreening in the Pharmaceutical Sector

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Martina Törnvall; [2013]
   Keywords : abuse of dominant position; competition law; patent strategies; evergreening; pharmaceutical sector; pharmaceuticals; patents; EU law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis identifies some of the uncertainties surrounding the application of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to evergreening of pharmaceutical patens. The concept of ever¬greening refers to a multitude of strategies adopted by patent holders with the aim to extend the privileged position that the patentee holds due to this exclusive right. READ MORE

3. 22. Medical Patents and Access to Medicines- how to incentivize the search for new drugs

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Hiba Al Suhairy; [2013]
   Keywords : Access to medicines; medical patents; neglected diseases; soft-law; CSR; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis deals with matters relating to neglected diseases and the lack of pharmaceutical R&D for the same diseases. Everybody is entitled to the right to health and subsequently the right to access to medicines, however not everyone has been receiving the benefits of this right. READ MORE

4. 23. 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

5. 24. Why people with HIV are let to die - Analysing medical ethics, drug patents and activism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Viktor Östlund; [2012]
   Keywords : politics; economists; bio technicians; hippocratic oath; geneva; udhr; human rights; bureaucracy; genocide; holocaust; economic theory; business; pharmaceutical; patents; fda; arv; azt; antiretroviral; medicine; drugs; generic; thailand; india; south africa; usa; hiv; aids; clinton; anthrax; trips; third world; developing countries; rich countries; mänskliga rättigheter; bush; mbeki; homocide; nelson mandela; conspiracies; Science General;

   Abstract : In this essay it will be analysed why people in need of HIV-medicine do not get access to them, which has so far resulted in millions of seemingly unnecessary deaths. It will be discussed what responsibilities scientists have and what people can or should do to claim rights to medicine. READ MORE

6. 25. 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