Differential pricing of pharmaceuticals inside Europe
Subtitle: exploring compulsory licenses and exhaustion for access to patented essential medicines
By: Christine Godt (ed.).
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik an der Universität Bremen, ZERP -- Bd. 58; Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik an der Universität Bremen, ZERP -- Bd. 58
Publisher: Nomos; Nomos Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baden-Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9783832942809
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry; Prices; Drugs; Law and legislation; Compulsory licensing of patents; Patents
Notes: "This volume makes two things available to the public: the editor's legal expert opinion commissioned by the German Ministry of Health in early 2008 ... and the proceedings of a conference organised to discuss the opinion's findings in Bremen on 9-10 October 2008"--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: General political and economic conditions affecting access to life-saving medicines in the enlarged European Union / Ortwin Schulte; title: Differential pricing of patent-protected pharmaceuticals for life-threatening infectious-diseases inside Europe : can compulsory licenses be employed? / Christine Godt; title: Community exhaustion : does European law allow for flexibility? / Werner Schroeder; title: European competition law, community-wide exhaustion and compulsory licenses : disintegrating the internal market in the public interest / Hans Ullrich; title: Differential pricing : piercing of fostering the IP incentive for public health? / Geertui van Overwalle; title: Price differentiation and the conundrum of exhausting principles / Heinz Goddar; title: Lessons to be learned in Europe from the international discourse on patents and public health / Jerome H. Reichman; title: Differential pricing of pharmaceuticals : lessons from economic theory / Sabine Richard; title: Pharmaceutical pricing policy in a global market : cross-border impact on the availability and prices / Valérie Paris; title: Protection and regulation of pharmaceutical in Bulgaria / Nadia Ianeva; title: Intellectual property rights and access to HIV medicines in Estonia / Aleksei Kelli; title: Research incentives from a public health perspective : the role of public funded research / Christian Wagner-Ahlfs.