Access to Knowledge in Biotechnology: Can Patent Pooling Work in India?

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dc.date.accessioned2012-08-14T15:23:29Z
dc.date.available2012-08-14T15:23:29Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description"Patent Pooling and Access to Knowledge"en
dc.description.abstractThe concern for adequate access to patented knowledge is as old as the history of modern intellectual property rights (IPR). While it was always thought that the poor consumers may not be able to access knowledge, with the internationalization of IPR in particular due to the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), it was pointed out by many that developing countries would find it difficult to access patented knowledge (Maskus 2000; Giannakas 2001). The issue of access to patented knowledge created in the developed world by the developing countries came to limelight in 1998, when 39 big pharmaceutical companies sued the government of South Africa which was trying to deal with the problem of AIDS by importing drugs from companies which were not authorised licensee to produce these drugs as they were operating in countries that allowed such production. This created a major backlash as NGOs and activists launched a global movement as they thought that this move by the companies would undermine the efforts to combat the AIDS crisis (IEGBIIP 2008)...en
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dc.format.extent1 digital file (31 p. : ill.)en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/50037
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectINTELLECTUAL PROPERTYen
dc.subjectACCESS TO PATENTED KNOWLEDGEen
dc.subjectBIOTECHNOLOGYen
dc.subjectPATENT POOLSen
dc.titleAccess to Knowledge in Biotechnology: Can Patent Pooling Work in India?en
dc.typeWorking Paperen
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.componentnumber104529003
idrc.project.number104529
idrc.project.titleAccessing Patented Knowledge for Innovationen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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