Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law

Download or read book Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law written by Josef Drexl and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health, safety and access to reasonably priced medicine are common policy goals of pharmaceutical regulations. As innovation context and competitive structure change, industry actors dynamically challenge the balance between the incentive for protection and the policies. Contributors to this book including academics, judges and practitioners from Europe, US and Japan, explore pharmaceutical industry's life cycle management strategies in the context of competition and patent laws, highlighting the difficulties in harmonization and coordination in this area of law and policy.