{"id":54545,"date":"2016-12-01T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selasite.azurewebsites.net\/tpp-access-to-medicines\/"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:58:22","slug":"tpp-access-to-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/tpp-access-to-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"New ECLAC Washington Study &#8211; TPP: Access to medicines and incentives for innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-teaser\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-teaser field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The balance struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on intellectual property (patent and data exclusivity) protection for pharmaceutical products<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/repositorio.cepal.org\/bitstream\/handle\/11362\/40729\/1\/S1601006_en.pdf\">This study addresses the balance struck under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) between the right to health and access to medicines and the need to maintain the economic incentives to spur innovation through intellectual property protection.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-block pane-views-press-contents-block-10\">\n<div class=\"view view-press-contents view-id-press_contents view-display-id-block_10 date-type view-dom-id-6c286bff4bf82e81b1a4b892ec842967\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">The analysis focuses on the patent and data-related intellectual property protection provisions of the agreement, specifically regarding pharmaceutical products. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">The concern is with the delay in the availability of generic and biosimilar products that could drive the price of life saving medicines down. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study concludes by finding that many of these provisions cement the U.S.\u2019s increasingly steep intellectual property protections observed in each of the existing U.S. free trade agreements (FTAs) with Latin American countries. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, the TPP provides for patent term extensions for regulatory delays in granting patents and marketing approvals, is said to be supportive of incremental innovation, and extends the data exclusivity period for undisclosed safety and efficacy information submitted for biologics.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is attenuated by various factors including the transition period granted to those TPP member countries that do not already apply these standards, specific exceptions provided to individual TPP parties, and the ambiguity surrounding how some provisions will be interpreted and implemented.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New ECLAC Washington Study &#8211; 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