India and the Patent Wars

India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two decades, intellectual property rights have expanded throughout the globe creating a world in which pr...

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Main Author: Murphy Halliburton (Author)
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