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A Public Health Perspective on Pharmaceutical Patents: Patent Examination and Policy Coherence

Training with IP Viet Nam for Patent Examiners on 14-16 December 2020.

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The South Centre and the Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam (IP Viet Nam) are organizing a virtual online national workshop on advancing a public health perspective related to the examination of pharmaceutical patent applications in Viet Nam. In view of the current global pandemic situation, the workshop will be held in the format of a webinar.  The workshop will focus on exchange of experiences on the application of rigorous patentability criteria for the examination of pharmaceutical patents. The objective of the workshop is to present analysis of international experiences and exchange of information on examination policies and practices concerning pharmaceutical patent applications, from a public health perspective. The workshop will respond to growing concerns about the proliferation of patents that protect minor, and in some cases obvious, variants of existing drugs or processes (such as changes in the drug formulation, salts, esters, ethers, isomers, polymorphs of known molecules, combinations of a known drug with other known drugs).

Supporting Materials

Patentability Criteria
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Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
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Free Trade Agreements
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Additional readings
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Introduction and Expert Advisory Service by South Centre
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Speakers Biographies
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