For example, in Thailand, introduction of generic medications was delayed for 1 year from the time compulsory licenses were approved. 32 The reason for this was that some patent-holding companies ...
We live in a world where progress and the public welfare are stymied by copyright and patent laws that grant extended exclusivity to the owners of intellectual property (“IP”). To pick just one ...
About the author: Ellen ‘t Hoen is the director of Medicines Law & Policy , a group of legal and policy experts offering advice to international organizations and governments. She is the founder and ...
After sparring with GSK’s ViiV Healthcare over the price of its HIV medication dolutegravir, Colombia appears to be taking matters into its own hands. Colombian authorities on Tuesday said they plan ...
The use of so-called 'compulsory licenses' by developing countries to obtain cheaper drugs for HIV and AIDS by circumventing patents has not been the best strategy for achieving the lowest prices over ...
India's decision in March to grant its first-ever compulsory license, which allows a company to make and market a drug that the patent holder has not been able to make sufficiently affordable and ...
Imagine a world where the dulcet tones of “Inagaddadavida” never graced the airwaves. Gasp you should! According to the artist currently known as, but formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known as, ...
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