مجلة طبنـــة للدراسات العلمية الأكاديمية
Volume 8, Numéro 2, Pages 1842-1858
2025-12-19

The Protection Prescribed For Pharmaceutical Patents Under The Trips Agreement And Its Impact On Facing Epidemics In Developing Countries

Authors : Rahal Ali .

Abstract

The TRIPS Agreement is one of the most important agreements of the World Trade Organization, given the system it adopted in protecting intellectual property rights in general, and pharmaceutical patents in particular. Recently, many questions have been raised about the legal protection granted to pharmaceutical patents under the TRIPS Agreement, which extended in a way that no longer guarantees the lowest standards of balance between the rights of these patent holders and the rights of those who need to benefit from them in developing countries, in light of Global pharmaceutical companies dominate the drug market, ignoring the slightest considerations of public health. This was exemplified by the outbreak of the new Corona virus. This study deals with the problem of strict protection established in the TRIPS Agreement and its impact on developing countries in the face of the repercussions of the Corona virus in terms of their ability to obtain medicine, vaccines and medical equipment.

Keywords

Protection, patent, epidemics, developing countries.