Resume - Supplementary Protection Certificates for Medicinal Products Nowadays, the pharmaceutical industry plays an important role in the world's economy and the pharmaceutical research has a decisive impact on the continuing improvement in public health. The system of patent law is of cardinal significance to the industry because it confers monopolies, for a limited period of time, on using innovations and provides a crucial incentive for basic research activities. Innovative companies require the guaranteed period of market exclusivity afforded by patents in order to sustain drug prices, recoup research and development expenditures and finance the development of new products. Although the availability of a patent protection for chemical and pharmaceutical products has, from a historical perspective, only been reaffirmed in the near past, it has been widely accepted as a global standard mainly through the provisions of the WTO's TRIPS agreement. On the other hand, despite the existence of various international treaties harmonising patent laws, patents have to date in their effects remained strictly limited to individual jurisdictions. Closely bound to the patent system itself are the means of the so-called off-patent protection - supplementary protection certificates and the others, for example market...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:350672 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Eignerová, Barbara |
| Contributors | Dobřichovský, Tomáš, Žikovská, Petra |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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