School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
Global Health. 2020 Jun 5;16(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s12992-020-00579-y.
This commentary re-examines a recent article by Labonté et al on the recent changes to two relevant provisions relating to patent rights in the final version of the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Although the USMCA's final revised version does not add more pharmaceutical patent protection than those that already exist in the three trading partners, the agreement has done little to enhance access to generic medicines and biosimilars.
本评论重新审视了 LaBonté 等人最近一篇关于《美国-墨西哥-加拿大协定》(USMCA)最终版本中与专利权利相关的两项规定最近变化的文章。尽管 USMCA 的最终修订版并没有比三个贸易伙伴现有的专利保护增加更多的药品专利保护,但该协议在增加仿制药和生物类似药的可及性方面几乎没有起到任何作用。