Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?
Document Type
Article
Year
2019
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?, (2019), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2010.
Abstract
Imagine a Harvard MBA graduate trying to decide between jobs at Pfizer and at Snapchat. Both are immensely wealthy firms. Many of Pfizer’s products benefit global health. Snapchat’s are at best neutral and may even harm health. Yet many see Pfizer as distinctively culpable for global health deficits. These arguments often depend on the fact that Pfizer holds intellectual property (IP) in pharmaceuticals, whereas Snapchat holds cash and non-pharmaceutical IP.
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