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Product Patents and Access to Innovative Medicines in a Post-TRIPS era
World Trade Organization

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The article examines how patents on new medicines affect their availability and cost after the TRIPS agreement. TRIPS requires most countries to grant 20-year patents on pharmaceutical products, except for the least-developed countries. By 2005, developing countries were supposed to follow this rule.

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