The strategic use of ethical arguments in international patent lawmaking
Authors: | Morin, Jean-Frédéric |
Abstract: | Due to scientific uncertainties and political problems, policymakers rely on socially constructed norms when drafting what they hope to be an efficient patent system. At the international level, ethical discourse is often used by stakeholders to promote their favoured norms and thus causing a "rhetorical war" in the international patent regime. This article introduces the evolution of key discourses in the history of the international patent regime, especially in regard to the biodiversity and the access to medicines debates. It leads to concluding remarks on the effectiveness of some discourses over others in framing international patent debates. |
Document Type: | Article de recherche |
Issue Date: | 1 September 2008 |
Open Access Date: | 9 June 2017 |
Document version: | AM |
Permalink: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/14342 |
This document was published in: | Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 3 (2), 503–534 (2008) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/aihlp3&page=503&collection=journals National Taiwan University Press |
Collection: | Articles publiés dans des revues avec comité de lecture |
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