Essays about: "thesis doha"
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1. Access patented vaccines in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : 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
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2. 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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3. 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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4. Competing for World Markets: The European Union and the United States in international trade negotiations: the case of Singapore
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Using the protection for exporters theory the thesis analyzes the EU’s quest for world markets in the case of trade negotiations with Singapore. The protection for exporters theory assumes governments to shift bias from the import competing sector to the export competing sector when exporters are exposed to potential losses. READ MORE
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5. Trade Facilitation in the Multilateral Trading System - An Analysis of the Doha Round Negotiations on Trade Facilitation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The World Trade Organization (WTO) as the world trading system is at a “cross roads”. Following the failure of ministers to reach an agreement on the WTO negotiations at their meeting in Geneva in July 2008, the WTO Members have retreated for serious reflection on the continued efforts to conclude the Doha Round. READ MORE
