Pharmaceutical Patenting in India: Access to Health Problem

Abstract

This paper highlights and overview of and analysis of the patent laws in relation with the pharmaceuticals, the problems of public access to health in India. Moreover, patents have played a keen role in changing national and global innovation landscape. Patents are a kind of intellectual asset to whoever owns it, say, any individual or a company or it can be the government of a nation as well. IPR Laws are getting more and more popular these days. It provides a relief to the innovative creators that their invention, idea, discovery will remain theirs. And among them, patent law is the most important. However, when it comes to medicine, which is an essential item for every individual, the same patent laws act as a blockage to the access of these essential commodities. This article deals with the meaning of pharmaceutical drugs, and it’s patenting in India, along with problems that occurred because of it to the public access to health. However, IPR culture in India is anything but satisfactory. It demands interest, in depth knowledge and effective strategies for encouraging and building IPR activities and explore scientific and industrial research and innovation in India.