International Pharmaceutical Law and Practice

Covers key pharmaceutical law topics in all of the major industrial countries and for each country discusses in detail:

•   Treaties and international law principles affecting patents, data exclusivity and other rights relating to pharmaceutical manufacture and sales

•   Patent procurement and the scope of patent protection afforded pharmaceutical subject matter

•   Substantive patentability requirements of novelty, utility and inventiveness

•   New drug approval process and supplementary approvals

•   Government price controls on pharmaceuticals and government drug payment plans

•   Obtaining an approval for a generic version of a drug

•   Compulsory Licensing