Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in the Face of a Potential Pandemic
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in the Face of a Potential Pandemic
Issues surrounding medicine patents truly test the moral groundings of patent law. Specifically, when companies develop and patent drugs that treat life threatening diseases, the inherent morality behind restrictive patent laws seems to lose legitimacy. The objectives underlying intellectual property must be weighed against the immediate humanitarian agenda. The anti-patent camp can argue that corporations […]