Intervention of health authorities in patent examination: the Brazilian practice of the prior consent
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Inderscience Publishers in International Journal of Intellectual Property Management
- Vol. 1 (1/2) , 54
- https://doi.org/10.1504/ijipm.2006.011022
Abstract
Intellectual property rights shall not be conceived or understood solely as instruments for the protection of markets and investments, while subjects of innovation, creativity and social welfare lose ground. Even if the TRIPS Agreement has raised the standards of intellectual property rights protection, the States are legally free to implement such obligations so as to protect collectively relevant interests, and surely, the right to health occupies a special position. The prior consent mechanism clearly has a wide juridical support: the TRIPS Agreement, former decisions of the WTOs Dispute Settlement Body, the UN Resolutions, Brazilian Federal Constitution, Brazilian Industrial Property Legislation, among others.Keywords
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