Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria [Hardcover]

In this thought-provoking analysis, the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil, India, and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making.

Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches, focus is drawn to the role of history, social networks and how relationships between a variety of actors shape the framing of, and subsequently the responses to, national implementation of international patent law. In doing so, the book reveals why the experience of Nigeria  a country active in opposing the inclusion of IP to the WTO framework during the Uruguay Rounds  is so different from that of Brazil and India.

This book makes an original and useful contribution to the further understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise, establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law, and its domestic implications on medicines access, public health and development.Patent Games in the Global Southwas awarded the 2018 SIELHart Prize in International Economic Law.

[T]his book is an original masterpiece that could be relied upon by a cross-section of students, scholars, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, professionals, and other stakeholders interested in the imperative but mostly esoteric and multifaceted matters of pharmaceutical patent law-making. Titilayo Adebola, University of Aberdeen,Journal of International Economic Law

An ambitious and insightful contribution. Rahul Bajaj, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India,Modern Law Review

Patent Games in the Global Southis an important book because it provides empirical support to voices questioning the wisdom and equity of imposing Western-style IP regimes in developing countries & What is more, it analyses what is needed to improvl³(