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The Health of eBay
The Impact of eBay on the Future of TRIPS-Like Pharmaceutical, Compulsory Licenses in the United States
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67 Id. at 36.
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69 Id at art. 31(b).
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72 Id. at 13 (comparing the demand of roughly 16,000 bottles of Sorafenib for liver cancer patients and 7120 bottles of Sorafenib for kidney cancer patients with the zero bottles Bayer imported in 2008, the 200 bottles imported in 2009, and the unknown number of bottles imported in 2010).
73 India Grants First Compulsory License to Generic Drug Producer, 16 Bridges (Mar. 14, 2012), http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/india-grants-first-compulsory-license-to-generic-drug-producer [http://perma.cc/5LLD-LV96].
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83 Id. at 1115-17.
84 Id. at 1115 (proposing this argument as a potential response to Brazil's use of the compulsory license).
85 Taylor, supra note 77.
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102 See Lim & Craven, supra note 90, at 789.
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136 When the market in which a compulsory license is granted is a target market that the pharmaceutical manufacturer intends to recoup its expenses, the compulsory license may have a significant adverse effect on innovation. See Chien, supra note 128, at 873.
137 A drug's target market are those countries where a pharmaceutical company focuses its sales efforts and expects to obtain most of its profits. See id.
138 Id.
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142 See Gillat, supra note 130, at 723 (“The existence of barriers to competitive entry other than patent protection diminishes the dependency of the innovating entity on the exclusivity granted under a patent right.”).
143 Borowski, supra note 139, at 286 (“[P]harmaceuticals find little protection as a trade secret because they are easily imitated and require extensive disclosure prior to regulatory approval. They are also not subject to copyright, and trademark law offers only a limited amount of protection after a significant period of time on the market.”) (footnotes omitted).
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145 See Borowski, supra note 139, at 284.
146 See Chien, supra note 128, at 874 (“The licensor may choose to redirect R&D investment, put off inventive activity until the license has expired, or choose trade secret over patent protection.”).
147 F. M. Scherer, The Economic Effects of Compulsory Patent Licensing 69, 75 (Edwin J. Elton & Martin J. Gruber eds., 1977) (finding that in the short-term, the largely unpredictable licenses studied did not appear to impact behavior on the year studied); Chien, supra note 128, at 875.
148 Chien, supra note 128, at 873-74.
149 Id.
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151 Pharmaceutical Chief Tries to Stop India Replicating its Cancer Treatment, Daily Mail UK (Jan. 24, 2014, 9:43 EST), http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545360/Pharmaceutical-chief-tries-stop-India-replicating-cancer-treatment.html.
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154 See Vaughan, supra note 128, at 100-07, 108 (“Because developing countries cannot pay the monopoly prices that pharmaceutical companies may charge for their patented inventions, these countries are not a part of pharmaceutical companies' market.”).
155 Chien, supra note 128, at 873.
156 See Vaughan, supra note 128, at 100-07 (comparing the appropriate meaning of “adequate remuneration” under Article 31(h) in developing nations and developed nations).
157 See Rein, supra 153, at 404-05; Vaughan, supra note 128, at 103, 103 n.132 (arguing that profits from the sale of pharmaceuticals in developing countries are inconsequential to pharmaceutical companies, so fair compensation for the grant of a compulsory license in a developing country should be minimal as compared to the appropriate compensation warranted for a compulsory license in a developed country).
158 See Vaughan, supra note 128, at 102 (arguing that granting compulsory licenses in developing countries does not generate any injury for pharmaceutical manufacturers, and thus compensation for lost profits is excessive).
159 See id.
160 Id. at 105 (quoting United States v. Reynolds, 397 U.S. 14, 16 (1970)).
161 Id.
162 Gillat, supra note 130, at 725.
163 See Vaughan, supra note 128, at 105.
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179 Id. at 257-58 (noting that negotiations can result in control over the distribution so as to not disrupt pricing in other markets, reputational advantages in the form of goodwill by engaging in voluntary licensing rather than a compulsory licensing, and mutually beneficial pricing).
180 See, e.g., H.R. 1708, 107th Cong. (2001).
181 Id. at § 158(a).
182 Id. at § 158(b).
183 See Bonadio, supra note 41, at 727.
184 Id.
185 Id.
186 Id. (“It is believed that this solution is efficient, as the patentee is in a privileged position to supply rapidly the goods covered by its patent, e.g. it might have large stocks ready to be distributed.”).
187 Chien, supra note 128, at 860-61; see Bonadio, supra note 41, at 727-28.