Impact of the World Trade Organization TRIPS agreement on the pharmaceutical industry in Thailand.
The 1994 World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) established minimum universal standards in all areas of intellectual property. It is intended to implement these standards globally through a WTO enforcement mechanism. The present article proposes a strategy for alleviating the potentially negative impact of TRIPS in Thailand in relation to the following: purchasers; prescribers and dispensers; producers; products; price control; patent-to-third-party; parallel imports; power of the customer; patentable new drugs; personnel; and prevention policies. The following TRIPS provisions are pertinent to the pharmaceutical industry in Thailand: the limited term of product and process patents; the conditions of protection; and the broad scope for compulsory licensing and enforcement procedures in the national patent system.
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Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. ssiripen@chula.ac.th
Janjaroen
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Tangphao
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Ratanawijitrasin
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Kraipornsak
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Pradithavanij
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D003132:Commerce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016527:Drug Costs; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D018973:Intellectual Property; D007391:International Cooperation; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000191:economics; D013785:Thailand
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations