Pool medical patents, save lives - Ellen 't Hoen
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Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop -- but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.)
The laws concerning patents for pharmaceuticals have changed as a result of the intellectual property rules of the World Trade Organization and an increased number of new patents are being developed by a wider range of countries. How might these factors lead to the treatment time-bomb?
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