Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Africa: A Regional Framework for Access

ISBN-13: 9781138343382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str.

Olasupo Owoeye

Opis

This book examines the scope of the existing flexibilities in international IP law for promoting access to medicines. By adopting qualitative research methods to investigate how African countries may effectively use IP to serve public health purposes, this book will be a valuable contribution to existing literature.

Spis treści

1: Introduction;  2: The TRIPS Compulsory Licensing Regime and Access to Medicines;  3: Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicines in Africa;  4: The TRIPS Regime for Test Data Protection and Access to Medicines;  5: The Exhaustion Doctrine, Parallel Trade and Public Health;  6: Pharmaceutical Patents and the Obligation to Protect Health;  7: Patents for Pharmaceuticals and the Human Right to Development;  8: Regional Trade Agreements, TRIPS Plus Provisions and the African Access to Medicines Conundrums;  9: Free Trade and Economic Collaboration as Paradigms for Access to Medicines;  10: Index