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Drug patents,
knowledge economy and public health
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest knowledge-based
industries in the world. Patents are designed to give pharmaceutical
companies exclusive rights for production for a limited time
period, so that they have an incentive to innovate.
Wheels within
wheels at Cancun
Apart from some positive agreements reached on the pharma
front a fortnight before the just-concluded trade ministerial
talks at Cancun, the inevitable collapse of the WTO conference
was expected.
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