Patents and Right to Health

Manju Sharma

Abstract: the paper analysis the impact of patent law on the right to health. the new patent regime has seriously affected the development of the pharmaceutical sector. The manufacture of drugs has been the key concern in according the right to health. Earlier the generic medicine used to take care of the rising prices of the drugs and it was easy for the poor common man to procure the drugs. However the grant of product patent is likely to affect the affording of medicine which will in affect hamper the right to health. Therefore the paper analyses the inter relationship of the same.

Keywords: right to health, patent and medicine, patent system, prise rise, compulsory license