Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law: A Trilateral Perspective

By Nari Lee and Josef Drexl

Considering the arguments from the perspectives of innovation, competition law and patent law, this book explores the difficult question of balancing protection with access, highlighting the difficulties in harmonization and coordination. The contributors to this book, including academics, judges and practitioners from Europe, the US and Japan, explore to what extent patent strategies and life-cycle management practices take advantage of patent laws and health-care regulation and disrupt the necessary balance between incentives for innovation and access to affordable medicine and health care.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857932454
• ISBN13: 9780857932457
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"