ABSTRACT

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health. 

The second edition accounts for recent and in some areas extensive developments in this dynamic and fast-moving field. This edition brings together new and updated examples and analysis in competition and regulation, gene-related inventions and biotechnology, as well as significant cases, including Novartis v Union of India.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part 1|36 pages

Health

chapter 1|13 pages

The life of health

chapter 2|21 pages

The health of intellectual property

part 2|62 pages

Rights

chapter 3|21 pages

The human right to health

chapter 4|18 pages

Health, development, culture

chapter 5|21 pages

Patent morality

part 3|39 pages

Life

chapter 6|17 pages

The technology of life

chapter 7|20 pages

Life’s libraries

part 4|51 pages

Access

chapter 8|27 pages

Access

chapter 9|20 pages

Use

chapter |1 pages

Conclusion

chapter |1 pages

... and conclusion