PART ONE BACKGROUND 3
1. From Conception to Commercial Success 3
2. A Limitation on the Patent Right to Exclude: An Introduction to International Exhaustion 35
PART TWO THE CURRENT FRAMEWORK 55
3. An Introduction to TRIPS 55
4. Freedom under TRIPS: India as an Example 89
5. Compulsory Licensing under TRIPS: An Introduction 125
6. Compulsory License Case Study: An Introduction to Competing Patent Perspectives 157
7. Complicated Compulsory Licenses: The Waiver/Article 31bis "Solution" 195
PART THREE THE EVOLVING FRAMEWORK 223
8. An Overview of "TRIPS-Plus" Standards 223
9. Beyond Patents: Protecting Drugs through Regulatory Laws 253
10. Suspensions of In-Transit "Generic Drugs": A Case Study of Competing Perspectives 285
11. A History of Access to Medicine through the Lens of Patent Perspectives 325
12. Looking Toward the Future 355
APPENDICES 375
Appendix A: Selected TRIPS Provisions 375
Appendix B: Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health 382
Appendix C: Draft Ministerial Declaration (Developed Countries) 384
Appendix D: Draft Ministerial Declaration (Developing Countries) 386
Appendix E: Glossary of Terms 390
INDEX 399