论药品可及性与药品专利保护

目的:寻找保护我国目前创新能力尚未成熟的民族制药业的途径,并确保药品可及性。方法:利用需求弹性理论、健康权与专利权属性比较等方法,结合TRIPS协议和国外的相关实践进行分析。结果与结论:对于我国这样的发展中国家来说,首先应当优先考虑眼前急迫的需要,如满足人民群众用药需求;然后逐步满足长远的需要,如鼓励自主知识产权,因此应有步骤地完善药品专利制度中与药品可及性相关的制度。

On Accessibility and Patent Protection of Drugs

OBJECTIVE: To seek approach for the protection of domestic pharmaceutical enterprises with immature creativity and to ensure drug accessibility. METHODS: An analysis was performed applying the theory of demand elasticity by comparing the attributes of health right and patent right etc based on TRIPS protocol and the related practice abroad. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: For a developing country, China should give top priority to the short-term urgent needs, such as to meet people's medication demands, followed by meeting the long-term demands, such as to encourage independent intellectual property rights. Hence, drug accessibility-related system in drug patent system should be evolved step by step.