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Patent Protection of European Pharmaceutical Innovations in India
[Patentová ochrana evropských vynálezů na léčiva v Indii]

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  • Ludmila Štěrbová
  • Kamila Trojanová

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India is a very important target market for European investors, including those from pharmaceutical industry, namely due to its production and sales opportunities. Production of pharmaceuticals and trade with them have some specific features that develop namely from the system of patent protection and enforcement and from the health system of individual countries. Indian legal system is in the field of intellectual property rights relatively complex and has important differences, including those in implementation of the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO. The goal of the future free trade agreement between India and EU is to negotiate the same level of the protection that pharmaceutical patents enjoy in the EU. It would support expansion of the European pharmaceutical industry at Asian market and would prevent losses from patent infringement or copying. Indian interests in this field are, however, contradictory, namely due to the necessity to protect national pharmaceutical industry, to support exportation of pharmaceuticals and to ensure access for people to cheap medicaments. The article analysis the Indian system of protection of pharmaceutical patents, its impacts on European pharmaceutical research oriented industry and potentials of the future free trade agreement in this area.

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  • Ludmila Štěrbová & Kamila Trojanová, 2013. "Patent Protection of European Pharmaceutical Innovations in India [Patentová ochrana evropských vynálezů na léčiva v Indii]," Současná Evropa, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2013(3), pages 35-54.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlsev:v:2013:y:2013:i:3:id:87:p:35-54
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