Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
First Page
299
Abstract
While technology continues to advance in many countries, the developing countries of the world are still playing catch-up. Technological progress is a key element of economic development, but only when adapted properly and affordably to meet the needs of the recipient country and population. However, development plans involving technology transfers to developing countries often encounter difficulties in the form of conflicting private sector patent' interests, inter-governmental bureaucratic inertia and misplaced or minimal technological investment. Of primary concern is the lack of access to affordable pharmaceuticals and medical treatments created by a mixture of expensive medical/pharmaceutical research, overreaching profit-seeking, and diminishing global property rights. Unfortunately for the well-meaning development professionals already struggling with the tensions between the need for both medicinal technology transfers and intellectual property protection, greater barricades to disease treatment and access to medicine loom on the horizon. A way out of this dilemma is presented.
Recommended Citation
Kevin McGarry,
U.S. Patent Reform and International Public Health: Issues of Law and Policy,
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Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev.
299
(2008).
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https://scholarship.stu.edu/ihrlr/vol3/iss1/11