The Battle over Intellectual Property Laws and Access to Medicines in Latin America: A Primer on Global Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, and Political Contestation
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Description
This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicine; that is, the measures that regulate the acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on pharmaceuticals and trade secrets in data concerning them, along with the conditions under which these rights give way to the interest in public access to cheaper generic drugs. The book presents the results of a comparative study on intellectual property and access to medicines in eleven Latin American countries: five from South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador), and six from Central American (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua). The chapter then discusses the discourse of global administrative law; theories of political contestation that underlie the analysis; and the concepts of intellectual property law relevant to the medicines debate and to a history of the region. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Source Publication
Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America
Source Editors/Authors
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, César Rodríguez-Garavito
Publication Date
2014
Recommended Citation
Dreyfuss, Rochelle C. and Rodríguez-Garavito, César, "The Battle over Intellectual Property Laws and Access to Medicines in Latin America: A Primer on Global Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, and Political Contestation" (2014). Faculty Chapters. 1894.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1894
