Point de vue
L’organisation mondiale du commerce, les brevets, les médicaments et le rapport nord-sud : un point de vue du sud
Marcelo Dias varella
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION,
PATENTS, PHARMACEUTICALS,
AND THE NORTH-SOUTH-RELATIONSHIP :
A POINT OF VIEW FROM THE SOUTH
The merits and drawbacks of patent protection for pharmaceuticals are a matter of
a longstanding controversy, particularly so as regards international protection.
Taking the uneven distribution of technological resources and economic potential as
a starting point the author seeks to make a case for an interpretation of international
rules of patent protection in favour of developing countries. To this effect he
describes, first, the development of these rules, in particular the establishment of the
WTO-Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property as a result of a
well-defined strategic trade policy, and, second, the different criteria and the scope
of patent protection available under national laws, in particular of some developed
and some developing countries. He then goes on to broadly define the margin of
manœuvre left by international rules for nation-states, and he does so with a view to
invite developing countries to make maximum use of that residual autonomy.
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 2 LA FORMATION D’UN SYSTÈME MONDIAL
DE PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE
ET LA DOUBLE POLITIQUE DES ÉTATS-UNIS
— 2.1 La formation d’un système mondial de propriéte intellectuelle
— 2.2 La double politique des États-Unis : l’exemple brésilien
• 3 LES POSSIBILITÉS JURIDIQUES DE L’ ACCORD
ADPIC FAVORABLES AUX PAYS DU SUD
— 3.1 Les dispositions de l’Accord ADPIC
— 3.2 Aménagements du droit de la propriété intellectuelle
et les produits génériques
• 4 CONCLUSIONS