Patently innovative : how pharmaceutical firms use emerging patent law to extend monopolies on blockbuster drugs /

Patently innovative provides a review of the importance of traditional patent law and emerging linkage regulations for pharmaceutical products on the global stage, with a focus on the linkage regime in Canada. The primary focus is on how innovation in the pharmaceutical sector can be strongly regula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouchard, Ron A.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Biohealthcare, 2012.
Series:Biohealthcare Publishing series on pharma, biotech and biosciences ; 13
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background : drug approval, drug patenting, pharmaceutical linkage and public health policy
  • Empirical analysis of drug approval
  • Empirical analysis of pharmaceutical innovation and drug approval-drug patenting linkage
  • Empirical analysis of drug patenting in multiple high-value cohorts
  • ?Implications of empirical data : are pharmaceutical linkage regulations a success?
  • Future directions : testable hypotheses and evolution toward global pharmaceutical linkage.