Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Test Data: Origins, Globalisation and Impact

This book considers the intellectual property protection of clinical test data that has been submitted to governments, in particular through test data exclusivity rights. It focuses on how these intellectual property rights first emerged in the early 1980s, how they have globalised over the past four decades, and what impact they have had upon access to medicine.

This book makes a number of significant and original contributions to the literature around the protection of submitted test dat...