Author : Josef Drexl
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Law
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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law write by Josef Drexl. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public health, safety and access to reasonably priced medicine are common policy goals of pharmaceutical regulations. As both the context for innovation and competitive structure change, industry actors dynamically challenge the balance between the incentive for protection and the achievement of those policy goals. 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. Addressing fundamental questions in the field of pharmaceutical innovation, this book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in intellectual property, competition law and life sciences regulation, as well as pharmaceutical companies and regulators.