Contemporary Issues in Pharmaceutical Patent Law: Setting the Framework and Exploring Policy Options

Book Overview

This collection reflects on contemporary and contentious issues in international rulemaking in regards to pharmaceutical patent law. With chapters from both well-established and rising scholars, the collection contributes to the understanding of the regulatory framework governing pharmaceutical patents as an integrated discipline through the assessment of relevant laws, trends and policy options. Focusing on patent law and related pharmaceutical regulations, the collection addresses the pressing issues governments face in an attempt to resolve policy dilemmas involving competing interests, needs and objectives. The common theme running throughout the collection is the need for policy and law makers to think and act in a systemic manner and to be more reflective and responsive in finding new solutions within and outside the patent system to the long-standing problems as well as emerging challenges

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367193388
• ISBN13: 9780367193386
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"