Patent Games in the Global South

Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Amaka Vanni, Gabrielle Marceau

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In this thought-provoking analysis, the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil, India, and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making. Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches, focus is drawn to the role of history, social networks and how relationships between a variety of actors shape the framing of, and subsequently the responses to, national implementation of international patent law. In doing so, the book reveals why the experience of Nigeria – a country active in opposing the inclusion of IP to the WTO framework during the Uruguay Rounds – is so different from that of Brazil and India. This book makes an original and useful contribution to the further understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise, establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law, and its domestic implications on medicines access, public health and development. Patent Games in the Global South was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in International Trade and Investment Law
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781509955022

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1. General Overview I. Introduction II. Terminology III. Why Brazil and India? IV. Book Outline 2. Understanding Patents I. Introduction II. The National Phase III. The Multilateral Phase – The Paris Convention IV. The Global Phase – TRIPS Agreement V. Conclusion 3. Views from the South: Critical Approaches to the Global Patent Regime I. Introduction Part I: TWAIL Theory II. Understanding TWAIL III. Situating TWAIL within the Global Patent Regime IV. Reading TRIPS Text through Twailian Lens V. Mind the Gap: On Limitations of TWAIL Part II: Nodal Governance VI. Understanding Nodal Governance VII. Nodal Governance and the Pharmaceutical Patent Regime VIII. Application of Nodal Governance to this Study IX. Conclusion 4. Brazil – The Juridical State I. Introduction II. Historical Evolution of the Patent Regime in Brazil III. Unpacking the Industrial Property Law of Brazil IV. The Constitutional Right to Health V. Resistance from Below: Social Movement and Patent Law VI. Engaging with the World: Towards Development VII. Conclusion 5. India: From Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks I. Introduction II. Historical Evolution of Patent Law in India III. Development and Competing Interests IV. Indian Patents (Amendment) Act of 2005: Unpacking Key Issues V. Medicine Access and the Nation-State as Site of Global Struggles VI. Conclusion 6. Nigeria: Disconnects, Discontinuities and the Spectacle of Reform I. Introduction II. Historical Evolution of the Patent Regime in Nigeria III. Unpacking the Patents and Designs Act of 1990 IV. State Regulatory Agencies and Patent Regime V. Patent Law-making and Nigerian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sector VI. Conclusion 7. General Conclusions I. Appraising the Discussion II. What is the Way Forward for Nigeria?