The Effects of Patent Protection on the Prices of Pharmaceutical Products - Is IP Protection Raising the Drug Bill in Developing Countries?
1 March 1998
By Dr. Richard Rozek
This paper was published in the Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 1, No. 2, March 1998, pp. 179-243.
It was later translated into Spanish under the title "Los Efectos de la Protecteccion de Patentes en los Precios de los Productos Farmaceuticos -- La Proteccion a la Propiedad Intelectual esta Elevando el Costo de los Medicamentos en los Paises en Desarrollo?" (with R. Berkowitz). The Spanish version was circulated in 1999.
A reprint of this article is available from the authors upon request.
