%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement on the pharmaceutical industry in Thailand
%A Supakankunti
%A Siripen
%A Janjaroen
%A Wattana S.
%A Tangphao
%A Oranee
%A Ratanawijitrasin
%A Sauwakon
%A Kraipornsak
%A Paitoon
%A Pradithavanij
%A Pirus
%J Bulletin of the World Health Organization
%D 2001
%I World Health Organization
%R 10.1590/S0042-96862001000500013
%X the 1994 world trade organization (wto) agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (trips) established minimum universal standards in all areas of intellectual property. it is intended to implement these standards globally through a wto enforcement mechanism. the present article proposes a strategy for alleviating the potentially negative impact of trips in thailand in relation to the following: purchasers; prescribers and dispensers; producers; products; price control; patent-to-third-party; parallel imports; power of the customer; patentable new drugs; personnel; and prevention policies. the following trips provisions are pertinent to the pharmaceutical industry in thailand: the limited term of product and process patents; the conditions of protection; and the broad scope for compulsory licensing and enforcement procedures in the national patent system.
%K drug industry
%K commerce
%K drug costs
%K legislation
%K drug
%K patents
%K treaties
%K thailand.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0042-96862001000500013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en