The article is about how PhRMA and a significant bi-partisan group of U.S. members of Congress are pushing to punish Thailand, for having in the past exercised the rights guaranteed in WTO agreements and countless World Health Organization (WHO) resolutions to protect its own population from high drug prices, by issuing a handful of compulsory licenses on drug patents.
Several developed countries argue that drug patents must be protected worldwide because pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars to create new drugs. However, it seems that kind of policy does not take into consideration the moral and practical issues at play.
The Philippines is a member of the WTO. So if we’re faced with a public health crisis, our government can import and produce generic medicine. So in order to relax the strict rules on patent, a country has to be facing a health emergency. GRABE. And that’s just for immediate threats. How about maintenance medicine.. those are super expensive!
IPR topic blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/thailand-and-medicine-pat_b_173839.html
Ludee
Several developed countries argue that drug patents must be protected worldwide because pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars to create new drugs. However, it seems that kind of policy does not take into consideration the moral and practical issues at play.
The Philippines is a member of the WTO. So if we’re faced with a public health crisis, our government can import and produce generic medicine. So in order to relax the strict rules on patent, a country has to be facing a health emergency. GRABE. And that’s just for immediate threats. How about maintenance medicine.. those are super expensive!
IPR topic blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/thailand-and-medicine-pat_b_173839.html
Ludee
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