Compulsory licensing is a practice that allows a third party to produce or use a patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner. The practice may be implemented to ensure patent ...

Very few topics in international intellectual property have been as controversial as compulsory licenses. While the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) sets ...

For example, Pfizer announced that it would rethink investments in Egypt after the country issued a compulsory license for sildenafil in 2002 42; however, this is unusual, and pharmaceutical ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Are drug patents preventing people in poor countries from gaining access to life-saving medicines? Some public health advocates say so. And by allowing ...

The use of so-called 'compulsory licenses' by developing countries to obtain cheaper drugs for HIV and AIDS by circumventing patents has not been the best strategy for achieving the lowest prices over ...

After sparring with GSK’s ViiV Healthcare over the price of its HIV medication dolutegravir, Colombia appears to be taking matters into its own hands. Colombian authorities on Tuesday said they plan ...

India's decision in March to grant its first-ever compulsory license, which allows a company to make and market a drug that the patent holder has not been able to make sufficiently affordable and ...