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Description of  From Antiquity to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Intellectual Property of Medicines and Access to Health - A Sourcebook

9403528508 pdf 9403528508 pdf The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the tensions inherent in the interface of proprietary medicines and the strong reaction of society at large in respect of pharmaceutical inventors and rights holders. As this comprehensive collection of sources shows, these tensions have persisted since ancient times. The sources along with headnotes and a deeply informed preamble clearly illustrate how society has constructed intellectual property in association with medicines to adapt it to the needs of entrepreneurship and free trade, and, at the same time, accommodating it to the imperatives of public health. Revealing two major lines of tension trademarks versus generic designations and patents versus trade secrets the texts deal with such aspects of the special intellectual property of medicines and access to health as the following: Read more