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Strategic Patenting of Pharmaceutical Inventions and the Public’s Right to Access Medicines: The South African Context
| العنوان: | Strategic Patenting of Pharmaceutical Inventions and the Public’s Right to Access Medicines: The South African Context |
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| المؤلفون: | Vuyisile Hobololo |
| المصدر: | The African Journal of Information and Communication, Iss 16, Pp 78-81 (2015) |
| بيانات النشر: | LINK Centre, School of Literature Language and Media (SLLM), 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Technology LCC:Information technology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | patents, pharmaceuticals, strategic patenting, public interest, access, compulsory licensing, competition, south africa, Technology, Information technology, T58.5-58.64 |
| الوصف: | Pharmaceutical firms’ use of strategic patenting to influence the markets within which their patented inventions sit is legally questionable. Such patenting entails filing patents with the intention of blocking potential competitors from innovating and/or being granted patents within niche technology areas of interest to the patentee. Under this practice, patentees are potentially able to extend the breadth and duration of their monopoly power in the pharmaceutical market sub-sector within which that invention sits. Such practices take on a clear public interest element if they undermine affordable public access to medicines. This thematic report outlines forms of strategic patenting, analyses the degree to which the South African legal system provides remedies against such patenting, and proposes ways forward for South Africa to prevent such practices. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2077-7205 2077-7213 |
| Relation: | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19317; https://doaj.org/toc/2077-7205; https://doaj.org/toc/2077-7213 |
| DOI: | 10.23962/10539/19317 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/212ff747238f49a8a74f1932ad8ed79a |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.212ff747238f49a8a74f1932ad8ed79a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 20777205 20777213 |
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| DOI: | 10.23962/10539/19317 |