Publications
Intellectual property and trade
This page contains a non-exhaustive list of publications and resources in the fields of Public health and intellectual property and Trade and public health that are available online. They are separated by their source (WHO or other intergovernmental organizations) and listed in chronological order.
Public health and intellectual property
World Health Organization
- Publications from the WHO South-East Asia Region
- Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment. Policy brief, UNAIDS, WHO, UNDP 2011
- How to conduct patent searches for medicines - A step-by-step guide, WHO - South East Asia Region and Western Pacific Region 2010
- Mohammed K., El Said, Public health related TRIPS-plus provisions in bilateral trade agreements: a policy guide for negotiators and implementers in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, ICTSD, WHO - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean 2010
- Carlos M. Correa, Guide for the application and granting of compulsory licences and authorization of government use of pharmaceutical patents, WHO 2009
- Working Paper: Patent issues related to influenza viruses and their genes, commissioned by WHO, WIPO 2007
- Impact assessment of TRIPS plus provisions on health expenditure and access to medicines: report of a workshop, Bangkok, 22-24 November 2006, WHO-SEARO 2007
- ICTSD, UNCTAD, WHO, Guidelines for the examination of pharmaceutical patents: developing a public health perspective, 2006
- Remuneration Guidelines for Non-voluntary Use of a Patent on Medical Technologies Health Economic and Drugs, TCM Series No. 18, WHO 2005
- Determining the Patent Status of Essential Medicines in Developing Countries, Health Economics and Drugs, EDM Series No. 17, WHO 2004
- Implementation of the WTO General Council Decision on Paragraph 6 of the DOHA Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health Health Economics and Drugs, EDM Series No. 16, WHO 2004
- Pharmaceuticals in the Trade Related Aspects of the Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization - A Briefing on Trips, WHO - Western Pacific Region 2000
- Essential Drugs in Brief No. 013 - 2004: WTO’s Decision on Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, WHO 2004
- IPR, Innovation, Human Rights and Access to Drugs. An Annotated Bibliography - Third Edition, EDM Series No. 14, WHO 2003
- Implications of the Doha Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health, Health Economics and Drugs, EDM Series No. 12, WHO 2002
- WTO Agreements & Public Health" - A joint study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat, WHO, WTO 2002
- Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, February 2001, Bangkok, Thailand, EDM Series No. 11, WHO 2001
- Differential Pricing & Financing of Essential Drugs, Report of the Workshop held in Hosbjor, Norway, 2001
- Trips, CBD and Traditional Medicines: Concepts and Questions, WHO/Directorate General of Drug and Food Control - Indonesia 2001
- The TRIPs Agreement and Pharmaceuticals, Report of an ASEAN Workshop on the TRIPs Agreement and its Impact on Pharmaceuticals, Jakarta, WHO 2000
- Globalization and Access to Drugs, Health Economics and Drugs, EDM Series No. 7, WHO 1998
Other intergovernmental organizations
- UNCTAD, Using Intellectual Property Rights to Stimulate Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries: A Reference Guide, 2011
- UNDP, The Doha Declaration 10 years on and its impact on access to medicines and the right to health, 2011
- UNDP, Good Practice Guide: Improving Access to Treatment with Flexibilities in TRIPS, 2011
- UNAIDS, Doha+10 TRIPS flexibilities and access to antiretroviral therapy: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future, 2011
- UNAIDS, Implementation of TRIPS and Access to Medicines for HIV after January 2016: Strategies and Options for Least Developed Countries; UNAIDS Technical Brief 2011
- Patent Search Report on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP)-Related Patents and Patent Applications, prepared on request of WHO, WIPO 2011
- WIPO Secretariat Document on “Patent-Related Flexibilities in the Multilateral Legal Framework and their Legislative Implementation at the National and Regional Levels — Part II”, 2011
- WIPO Secretariat Document on “Patent Related Flexibilities in the Multilateral Legal Framework and their Legislative Implementation at the National and Regional Levels”, 2010
- Five years into the product patent regime: India’s response, UNDP, 2010
- WIPO Secretariat Document on “Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights”, 2009
- WIPO Secretariat Document on “Dissemination of Patent Information”, 2009
- Ben Sihanya, Patents, Parallel Importation and Compulsory Licensing of HIV/AIDS Drugs: The Experience of Kenya, Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation, WTO Case Study 19, 2009
- WIPO, Recommendations Adopted under the WIPO Development Agenda, 2007
- Christopher Garrison, Exceptions to patent rights in developing countries, UNCTAD-ICTSD Issue Paper No. 17, 2006
- UNCTAD-ICTSD, Resource Book on TRIPS and Development: An authoritative and practical guide to the TRIPS Agreement, 2005
- Carsten Fink and Patrick Reichenmiller, Tightening TRIPS: The Intellectual Property Provisions of Recent US Free Trade Agreements, World Bank Trade Note 20, 2005
- WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook: Policy, Law and Use, WIPO Publication No.489, 2004
- Carsten Fink, Intellectual Property and Public Health – Putting the WTO's August 2003 Decision into Perspective, World Bank Trade Note 5, 2005
- Carlos Correa, Protection of Data Submitted for the Registration of Pharmaceuticals: Implementing the Standards of the Trips Agreement, South Center 2002
- Carlos Correa, Integrating Public Health Concerns into Patent Legislation in Developing Countries, South Center 2000
Trade and public health
- The Potential Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Public Health, UNDP, UNAIDS Issue Brief 2012, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2012
- South Centre, Carlos M. Correa, Pharmaceutical innovation, incremental patenting and compulsory licensing
- Patrick L. Osewe, Yvonne, K. Nkrumah, Emmanuel K. Sackey, Improving Access to HIV/AIDS Medicines in Africa: Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Flexibilities, 2008. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- David P. Fidler, Carlos Correa, Obijiofor Aginam. Draft Legal Review of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) from a Health Policy Perspective
- Chantal Blouin, Nick Drager, Richard Smith (ed.) International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates. Published in September 2005 by the World Bank and the World Health Organization
- WTO agreements and public health. A joint study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat. Geneva, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization, 2002
- Trade in health services: global, regional and country perspectives. Washington DC, Pan American Health Organization, 2002
- Smith R. Foreign direct investment and trade in health services: a review
- Drager N. Making trade work for the public health. BMJ, 1999, 319:1214