Coalitions and compliance : the political economy of pharmaceutical patents in Latin America /
Coalitions and Compliance examines how international changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have been subject to intense pressures regarding intellectual property rights. These pressures have been exceptionally controversial in the area of pharmaceutica...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 4: Not If but How: NAFTA and Extreme Over-Compliance in MexicoExternal Pressures, New Opportunities, and Changing Executive Preferences; Liberalization, NAFTA, and Pharmaceutical Patents; Completing the Rout: NAFTA, Business Politics, and the Expansive Coalition for Over-Compliance; Mobilization, Coalitions, and Patent Politics; Conclusion; 5: Coalitional Clash, Export Mobilization, and Executive Agency: From Reluctant Acquiescence to Enthusiastic Over-Compliance in Brazil; External Pressures, Legislative Activism, and Brazilś New Patent Law
- Brazilian Over-Compliance in Comparative PerspectivePharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and Political Coalitions; A Weak Pharmaceutical Sector in a Strong Defensive Coalition; External Pressures, Exporter Mobilization, and Executive Coalition Building; Conclusion; Part III: Modifying New Pharmaceutical Patent Systems; 6: The Defensive Coalition on the Offensive: National Industry and Argentinaś Market-Preserving Patent System; Patents, Adjustment, and the New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals in Argentina; External Pressures and ARGENTINEAN Defiance, Again; Data Protection
- Cover; Coalitions and Compliance: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; Part I: Context, Theory, Explanatory Framework; 1: Global Change, Political Coalitions, and National Responses; Harmonization, Differentiation, and Coalitional Politics; The Drivers of Compliance and Over-Compliance; Research Design, Data Sources, Methodology, and Organization; 2: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents; Intellectual Property, Patents, and Pharmaceutical Conflicts
- Preliminary InjunctionsLocal Labs, Secondary Patents, and Patent Examination Guidelines; Pharmaceutical Producer Power and State Regulatory Capacity; Conclusion; 7: Whatś Good for Us is Good for You: The Transnational Pharmaceutical Sector and Mexicoś Internationalist Patent System; The Legacies of Early and Extreme Over-Compliance; Legislative Perversity: Reforming Mexicoś Compulsory Licensing Provisions; Extending Protection through the Courts; Unfulfilled Ambition: Introducing Pre-Grant ``Opposition;́́ Conclusion
- Two Periods of Conflict: The Key IssuesThe Political Economy of Introducing Pharmaceutical Patents; The Political Economy of Tailoring Pharmaceutical Patent Systems; Conclusion; Part II: Introducing PharmaceuticalPatents; 3: Power to the Producers: Industrial Legacies, Coalitional Expansion, and Minimalist Compliance in Argentina; External Pressures, Executive-Legislative Conflict, and Argentinaś New Patent Law; Power and Preferences in the Pharmaceutical Industry; CILFAś Coalition; Export Profile and CAEMEś Unsuccessful Political Mobilization; Conclusion