Rewards for innovation: Striking a balance for pharmaceuticals
作者:
George Teeling Smith,
期刊:
Science and Public Policy
(OUP Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 76-79
ISSN:0302-3427
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1093/spp/18.1.76
出版商: Beech Tree Publishing
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
AbstractCurrently the European patent systems give a theoretical patent life for pharmaceuticals of 20 years. Since half of this time is spent testing the efficiency and safety of the product, the European Community is discussing a proposal to give prescription medicines a longer period of exclusivity — the innovator must be effectively protected from excessive price competition if socially valuable innovation is to be encouraged.
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