إسهام الواردات الموازية في التقليل من الآثار السلبية لامتداد قواعد عولمة حماية الملكية الفكرية إلى الصناعات الدوائية

Abstract EN

As the ideologists of capitalism have realized the economic importance of protecting the intellectual property, they required from the developing countries to debate the topic of globalizing this kind of protection under the auspices of the World Trade Organization in order to enhance protective measures for the advanced technology.

As a result, an agreement has been reached as far as the issue of Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is concerned.

Indeed, drug industry is the most critically influenced domain both economically and socially by this agreement.

Therefore, our study is designed to discuss the opportunities that the developing countries can obtain from this agreement that has launched an unfair war on the pharmaceutical industry.

Because the former is still in its infancy in these countries and it is not yet up to the international competition, the agreement has covered some flexible aspects benefiting the developing countries in spite of their parallel imports.

The positive influence that is supposed to result from this measure can be translated in decreasing the prices and providing drugs to all individuals in normal conditions.