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Searching for transparency: Improving patent information to increase access to medicines [1]

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The ability of developing and least-developed countries to procure affordable generic medicines continues to be hampered by a lack of transparency in patent information. While there has been an increase in electronic patent information since TRIPS, much more still needs be done.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
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Drugs [3], Developing Countries [4], Patents [5], Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) [6], Globalisation [7], Health [8], India [9]
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