This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the contributors look at 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 expire so as to permit the production of cheaper generic drugs. In addition, the book includes commentary from scholars in human rights, international institutions, and transnational activism.
The case
studies presented from 11 Latin American countries, have many commonalities in terms of economics, legal systems, and political histories, and yet they differ in the balance each has struck between proprietary interests and access concerns. The book documents this cross-country variation in legal
norms and practice, identifies the factors that have led to differences in result, and theorizes as to how differentials among these countries occur and why they endure within a common transnational regulatory regime.
The work concludes by putting the results of the investigations into
a global administrative law frame and offers suggestions on institutional mechanisms for considering the trade-offs between health and wealth.
Rochelle Dreyfuss and César Rodríguez-Garavito: Introduction
1. Tatiana Andia: Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Access to Medicines in Ecuador: State Sovereignty and Transnational Advocacy Networks
2. Paola Bergallo & Agustina Ramon Michel: The Recursivity of
Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents
3. Angelina Snodgrass Godoy: CAFTA, Intellectual Property and the Right to Health in Central America
4. Salvador Millaleo: Balancing Wealth and Health: The Case of Chile
5. César Rodríguez-Garavito:
Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Patent Rights and Access to Medicines in Colombia
6. Monica Steffen Guise & Adelina de Oliveira Novaes: Balancing Health and Wealth: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil
7. Laurence
Helfer and Karen Alter: The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America
8. Smita Narula: The Rights-Based Approach to Intellectual Property And Access To Medicine: Parameters and Pitfalls
9. Sean Flynn: Public Participation in US Special 301
Actions
10. Amy Kapczynski: Going Local: Downshifting in the Era of TRIPS Implementation
11. Molly Land: Applying Human Rights Law
12. Ruth Okediji: The Missing Role of WIPO
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Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was a co-Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles
Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. César Rodríguez-Garavito is Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of los Andes (Colombia). He is a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and
Society (Dejusticia), and the co-director of the Global School on Socio-Economic Rights. He serves in the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
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