Competition law and patents
Subtitle: a follow-on innovation perspective in the biopharmaceutical industry
By: Irina Haracoglou.
Series: New horizons in competition law and economics
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781847205995
Subjects: Patent laws and legislation; Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- Patents; Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- Law and legislation; Competition, Unfair
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biopharmaceutical R&D : the increased importance of cumulative innovation and related concerns; title: The patent system as a system of balancing; title: The patent system and some potential safety nets; title: The right to health as an interpretive principle of patent law; title: Unilateral conduct, IPRs and competition law : a systems' interaction; title: The duty to deal under Art. 82 EC; title: The duty to deal as applied to address technology access problems in the biopharmaceutical industry.