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Will GSK Break the Doha Impasse in the Global Drug Pricing Crisis?

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan --As we have noted in the past, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) portion of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have not resulted in the general reverence for intellectual property protection intended by Western countries in the developing world, particularly with regard to pharmaceuticals (see "Not Getting It about Patented Drug Prices at The Wall Street Journal"). In particular, the combination of the Doha Declaration of 2001 and compulsory licensing provisions in national TRIPS implementing laws have created a crisis for Western pharmaceutical companies, who have...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).