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Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria

Name: Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria
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SKU: 9781509955022
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Author: Amaka Vanni
ISBN: 9781509955022

By Amaka Vanni

Hart Publishing August 2021

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ISBN-13: 9781509955022
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: August 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Winner of the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law Thought-provoking analysis of pharmaceutical patent law in Brazil, India and Nigeria Provides an account of how certain developing countries use the patent regime as set out in the TRIPS Agreement to effect development and public health goals Articulates successful counter-hegemonic discourses on patent law-making and extrapolates lessons for Nigeria

1. General Overview

I. Introduction

II. Terminology

III. Why Brazil and India?

IV. Book Outline

2. Understanding Patents

I. Introduction

II. The National Phase

III. The Multilateral Phase – The Paris Convention

IV. The Global Phase – TRIPS Agreement

V. Conclusion

3. Views from the South: Critical Approaches to the Global Patent Regime

I. Introduction

Part I: TWAIL Theory

II. Understanding TWAIL

III. Situating TWAIL within the Global Patent Regime

IV. Reading TRIPS Text through Twailian Lens

V. Mind the Gap: On Limitations of TWAIL

Part II: Nodal Governance

VI. Understanding Nodal Governance

VII. Nodal Governance and the Pharmaceutical Patent Regime

VIII. Application of Nodal Governance to this Study

IX. Conclusion

4. Brazil – The Juridical State

I. Introduction

II. Historical Evolution of the Patent Regime in Brazil

III. Unpacking the Industrial Property Law of Brazil

IV. The Constitutional Right to Health

V. Resistance from Below: Social Movement and Patent Law

VI. Engaging with the World: Towards Development

VII. Conclusion

5. India: From Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks

I. Introduction

II. Historical Evolution of Patent Law in India

III. Development and Competing Interests

IV. Indian Patents (Amendment) Act of 2005: Unpacking Key Issues

V. Medicine Access and the Nation-State as Site of Global Struggles

VI. Conclusion

6. Nigeria: Disconnects, Discontinuities and the Spectacle of Reform

I. Introduction

II. Historical Evolution of the Patent Regime in Nigeria

III. Unpacking the Patents and Designs Act of 1990

IV. State Regulatory Agencies and Patent Regime

V. Patent Law-making and Nigerian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sector

VI. Conclusion

7. General Conclusions

I. Appraising the Discussion

II. What is the Way Forward for Nigeria?"

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