Compulsory licensing of patents for medicine exports

United Kingdom

In accordance with its programme to assist poorer countries to obtain access to essential medicines, the European Commission has published its Proposal for a Regulation on compulsory licensing of patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems.

Click here for the draft regulation.

For further information, please contact Nick Beckett by telephone on +44 (0) 20 7367 2490 or at e-mail at [email protected]