From conception to commercial success -- A limitation on the patent right to exclude : an introduction to international exhaustion -- An introduction to TRIPS -- Freedom under TRIPS : India as an example -- Compulsory licensing under TRIPS : an introduction -- Compulsory license case study : an introduction to competing patent perspectives -- Complicated compulsory licenses : the waiver/article 31bis solution -- An overview of TRIPS-plus standards -- Beyond patents : protecting drugs through regulatory laws -- Suspensions of in-transit generic drugs : a case study of competing perspectives -- A history of access to medicine through the lens of patent perspectives -- Looking toward the future
Summary
The issue of how patents impact medicine has increased in significance within the last decade. The book provides an explanation of the current international infrastructure and explains how competing patent perspectives play a thus far unacknowledged role in promoting distortion and confusion
