Drexl, Josef; Lee, Nari --- "Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) [2013] ELECD 839

Editor(s): Drexl, Josef; Lee, Nari

Title: Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law

Sub-title: A Trilateral Perspective

Topics: Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law; Competition and Antitrust Law; Intellectual Property Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 July 2013

Number of pages: 352

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857932457

EISBN: 9780857932464

Abstract/Description:

Public health, safety and access to reasonably priced medicine are common policy goals of pharmaceutical regulations. As both the context for innovation and competitive structure change, industry actors dynamically challenge the balance between the incentive for protection and the achievement of those policy goals.

Considering the arguments from the perspectives of innovation, competition law and patent law, this book explores the difficult question of balancing protection with access, highlighting the difficulties in harmonization and coordination. The contributors to this book, including academics, judges and practitioners from Europe, the US and Japan, explore to what extent patent strategies and life-cycle management practices take advantage of patent laws and health-care regulation and disrupt the necessary balance between incentives for innovation and access to affordable medicine and health care.

Addressing fundamental questions in the field of pharmaceutical innovation, this book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in intellectual property, competition law and life sciences regulation, as well as pharmaceutical companies and regulators.