• Global public health · Jan 2013

    The new patent regime and disease priorities in India.

    • Indrani Gupta, Pradeep Guin, and Mayur Trivedi.
    • Institute of Economic Growth-Health Policy Research Unit, Delhi University North Campus, Delhi, India.
    • Glob Public Health. 2013 Jan 1; 8 (1): 37-54.

    AbstractThe World Trade Organization (WTO) and Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which made product patents compulsory for countries to follow, meant that the entire market for generic drugs was out of bounds for manufacturing till the time the products went off-patent. The TRIPS has generated widespread discussions and debates around the costs and benefits of new patent regimes on countries such as India. This article analyses whether the post-WTO system was consistent with, and conducive to, improved public health in India. It is a first-of-its-kind effort in which the data on pharmaceutical patents applications were collected, collated, cleaned and classified according to IPC codes, to enable preliminary understanding of the nature and type of the applications. The patent applications that are filed in India are not found to be consistent with the disease burden of the country.

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