2017•Riviste UNIMI (Università degli studi di Milano)Open access

Intellectual property rights and public health: an impediment to access to medicines and health technology innovation?

Nerina Boschiero

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Summary: 1. Pharmaceutical patents, the access to essential medicines and the question of innovation - 2. The actual and/or potential between the rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health. The everlasting controversy on the allegedly adverse impact of intellectual property protection on access to medicines and health technologies - 3. Are human rights and intellectual property law really in conflict? A relation of interpretation, not of conflict - 4. Conclusions.

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Key concepts: Intellectual property, Access to medicines, Interpretation (philosophy), Human rights, Law and economics, Essential medicines, Relation (database), Public health