Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil
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Data de Publicação: | 2022 |
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Resumo: | The defence of the patent system's legitimacy, namely in the pharmaceutical field, is consolidated, although it is not exempt from criticism. Historically, when the patent law, a legal monopoly right, is confronted with the right of access to health, which inc ludes the right to the medicines necessary for its care, the mechanisms that have been established are scarce and weak. Nonetheless, one must recognize due merit in the search for a balance between the exclusive right of the holder of the legal monopoly and the right of the community to generalized access to medicines necessary to fulfil the right to health. In the current context of the covid-19 disease, where access to health care for all countries, rich and poor, is at stake, it seems that there is a greater will to make the right to health prevail over the property right of the holder of a pharmaceutical patent. |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and BrazilPharmaceutical patentsright to healthaccess to essential medicinesThe defence of the patent system's legitimacy, namely in the pharmaceutical field, is consolidated, although it is not exempt from criticism. Historically, when the patent law, a legal monopoly right, is confronted with the right of access to health, which inc ludes the right to the medicines necessary for its care, the mechanisms that have been established are scarce and weak. Nonetheless, one must recognize due merit in the search for a balance between the exclusive right of the holder of the legal monopoly and the right of the community to generalized access to medicines necessary to fulfil the right to health. In the current context of the covid-19 disease, where access to health care for all countries, rich and poor, is at stake, it seems that there is a greater will to make the right to health prevail over the property right of the holder of a pharmaceutical patent.OBERVARE. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa2022-05-16T11:01:26Z2022-05-01T00:00:00Z2022-05info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11144/5432eng1647-7251https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.13.1.11Bahamonde Delgado, Rubeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-11T02:15:46Zoai:repositorio.ual.pt:11144/5432Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:33:04.165437Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil Bahamonde Delgado, Ruben Pharmaceutical patents right to health access to essential medicines |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil |
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Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health – Portugal and Brazil |
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Bahamonde Delgado, Ruben |
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Bahamonde Delgado, Ruben |
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Bahamonde Delgado, Ruben |
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Pharmaceutical patents right to health access to essential medicines |
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Pharmaceutical patents right to health access to essential medicines |
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The defence of the patent system's legitimacy, namely in the pharmaceutical field, is consolidated, although it is not exempt from criticism. Historically, when the patent law, a legal monopoly right, is confronted with the right of access to health, which inc ludes the right to the medicines necessary for its care, the mechanisms that have been established are scarce and weak. Nonetheless, one must recognize due merit in the search for a balance between the exclusive right of the holder of the legal monopoly and the right of the community to generalized access to medicines necessary to fulfil the right to health. In the current context of the covid-19 disease, where access to health care for all countries, rich and poor, is at stake, it seems that there is a greater will to make the right to health prevail over the property right of the holder of a pharmaceutical patent. |
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