AIDS treatment
What Purpose Unitaid’s Patent Pool?
Miércoles, Junio 16, 2010
This paper examines the wisdom of Unitaid's new patent pool for AIDS treatments, considering the weaknesses in the case for such a pool, the lessons from historical examples and the likely consequences for research and development.
The Boys from Brazil
IPN Opinion article
It is precisely this kind of double-morality -- a disdain for property rights in name of supposedly helping the sick -- that is discouraging innovation in this sector. The patent-protection regimes in the developed world are a compromise between the need for innovation and the need for competition, providing a limited period of monopoly control over the intellectual property. The recent moves to undermine that compromise in South Africa and elsewhere are destroying the incentive to innovate in AIDS treatment.
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