Compulsory licensing: Benefit or detriment

• In: G21 - YPG Educational Forum: Emerging trends in Pharmacy on Thursday, 31 August 2006, 14:00-17:00
• At: Salvadore (Brazil) (2006)
• Type: Presentation
• By: WERTHEIMER, Albert (Temple University, School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America)
• Abstract:

  Patents are licenses for exclusive use of an invention or composition. Governments grant patents as an incentive for innovative research. In exchange, a patent holder must divulge the composition and synthesis of the invention. This enables other researchers to tinker with the invention to improve it. This is how science functions. Yet, in all

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