专利保护和公共健康:国家药物政策中的冲突与协调

Patent Protection and Public Health: Conflict and Coordination in the National Medicine Policy

药物专利保护能够有效地激励科技创新,然而,产业资本寻求利益最大化导致了产业资本诉求与公共健康问题无法避免的利益冲突,专利保护对于药物可及性的影响十分明显,两者的冲突只能进一步协调而不可能完全消失。在一个合理的专利制度体系下,会不断激励药物研发创新、改善人类生活质量。国家药物政策的一个重要作用就是通过协调机制增强药物的可及性。

Medical patents protection can effectively encourage medicine research and innovation. However, there is a clearly defined income boundary by the property right during the process that industrial capital maximize its interests. This leds to an inevitable conflicts of interest between the industry capital＇ s appeal for value and the issue of public health. Patent protection for medicine has an obvious influence on the accessibility of medicine. The conflicts only can be coordinated and cannot disappear entirely. The national medicine policy plays an important role on increasing accessibility under the patent system through coordination mechanism.