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India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two decades, intellectual property rights have expanded throughout the globe creating a world in which pr...
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oapen-20.500.12657-307652021-11-04T14:10:28Z India and the Patent Wars Halliburton, Murphy Economics Medicine India Pharmaceuticals Intellectual Property Activism Ayurveda Gilead Patent India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two decades, intellectual property rights have expanded throughout the globe creating a world in which protections for patents and copyrights have increased and a growing range of knowledge and practices are claimed as property. Driving these changes are U.S. court decisions, the policies of multinational corporations, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Resistance to this regime has emerged in low-income countries among public health activists concerned about the rising cost of medicines for HIV/AIDS and indigenous peoples who now see their knowledge as vulnerable and pursue ownership claims for their medical and cultural practices. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:34 2020-04-01T13:12:30Z 2020-04-01T13:12:30Z 2017-11-15 book 642737 OCN: 986788839 9781501713972;9781501713989 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30765 eng ILR Press/Culture and Politics of Health Care Work application/pdf n/a 642737.pdf Cornell University Press 10.7591/cornell/9781501713460.001.0001 101567 10.7591/cornell/9781501713460.001.0001 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781501713972;9781501713989 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ithaca, NY 101567 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two decades, intellectual property rights have expanded throughout the globe creating a world in which protections for patents and copyrights have increased and a growing range of knowledge and practices are claimed as property. Driving these changes are U.S. court decisions, the policies of multinational corporations, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Resistance to this regime has emerged in low-income countries among public health activists concerned about the rising cost of medicines for HIV/AIDS and indigenous peoples who now see their knowledge as vulnerable and pursue ownership claims for their medical and cultural practices. |
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