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Preserving patent policy space and securing access to medicines in developing countries: the role of states and pharmaceutical corporations
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| dc.check.embargoformat | E-thesis on CORA only | en |
| dc.check.entireThesis | Entire Thesis Restricted | |
| dc.check.info | Indefinite | en |
| dc.check.opt-out | Yes | en |
| dc.check.reason | This thesis is due for publication or the author is actively seeking to publish this material | en |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hedley, Stephen William | en |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Crowley, Louise | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Oke, Emmanuel Kolawole | |
| dc.contributor.funder | University College Cork | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-15T16:55:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the tension between patent rights and the right to health and it recognizes patent rights on pharmaceutical products as one of the factors responsible for the problem of lack of access to affordable medicines in developing countries. The thesis contends that, in order to preserve their patent policy space and secure access to affordable medicines for their citizens, developing countries should incorporate a model of human rights into the design, implementation, interpretation, and enforcement of their national patent laws. The thesis provides a systematic analysis of court decisions from four key developing countries (Brazil, India, Kenya, and South Africa) and it assesses how the national courts in these countries resolve the tension between patent rights and the right to health. Essentially, this thesis demonstrates how a model of human rights can be incorporated into the adjudication of disputes involving patent rights in national courts. Focusing specifically on Brazil, the thesis equally demonstrates how policy makers and law makers at the national level can incorporate a model of human rights into the design or amendment of their national patent law. This thesis also contributes to the ongoing debate in the field of business and human rights with regard to the mechanisms that can be used to hold corporate actors accountable for their human rights responsibilities. This thesis recognizes that, while states bear the primary responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfil the right to health, corporate actors such as pharmaceutical companies also have a baseline responsibility to respect the right to health. This thesis therefore contends that pharmaceutical companies that own patent rights on pharmaceutical products can be held accountable for their right to health responsibilities at the national level through the incorporation of a model of civic participation into a country’s patent law system. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Faculty of Law, University College Cork | en |
| dc.description.status | Not peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oke, E. K. 2015. Preserving patent policy space and securing access to medicines in developing countries: the role of states and pharmaceutical corporations. PhD Thesis, University College Cork. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/2146 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University College Cork | en |
| dc.rights | © 2015, Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | International patent law and policy | en |
| dc.subject | Human right to health | en |
| dc.subject | Access to medicines | en |
| dc.subject | Developing countries | en |
| dc.subject | Intellectual property rights and human rights | en |
| dc.subject | Business and human rights | en |
| dc.subject | TRIPS agreement | en |
| dc.thesis.opt-out | true | |
| dc.title | Preserving patent policy space and securing access to medicines in developing countries: the role of states and pharmaceutical corporations | en |
| dc.type | Doctoral thesis | en |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en |
| dc.type.qualificationname | PhD (Law) | en |
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