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Access to essential medicines : The Doha Declaration safeguards on public health and the regional pharmaceutical compounding programme in Africa
Manu, Thaddeus (Queen Mary, Univ of London, 2011) -
Building national initiatives of compulsory licences : reflecting on the Indian jurisprudence as a model for developing countries
Manu, Thaddeus (2015)The focus of this article is only on developing countries. The author reflects on the Indian patent jurisprudence regarding the operational relationship between the general principles applicable to working of patented ... -
Challenging the Validity of Patents: Stepping in Line with EPO and US Jurisprudence
Manu, Thaddeus (2017-11-01)As a matter of law, patents are granted with a presumption of validity. However, with the public interest considered as an essential basis for the granting of exclusive rights, subject only to procedural fairness, a competent ... -
The complexity of enforcing intellectual property rights in the absence of antitrust legislation and a related enforcement institution : a classic policy failure in Ghana
Manu, Thaddeus (2013)Owing to the fact that TRIPS provides for a stringent enforcement of IPRs, this article examines the consequences of enforcing IPRs in the absence of an antitrust legislation and a related enforcement institution in Ghana. ... -
The Complexity of Using the Patent Standards under TRIPS for the Promotion of Domestic Industrial Development in Developing Countries in the Absence of Local Working Requirements: : Rethinking the Role of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Intellectual Property Standard-Setting
Manu, Thaddeus (2017-06-01)This article confronts the most basic question, which is whether in its traditional legislative intent the principle of patent working requirements would as an instrument of government policy in the mist of global value ... -
Deploying pre-grant patent opposition mechanisms in Africa to monitor abuse of the patent system
Manu, Thaddeus (2015)This article examines the extent to which African countries could deploy pre-grant patent opposition provisions in their domestic patent regimes to mitigate the abuse of the patent system. The author argues that the public ... -
Examining the legality of affordability requirements as a substantive condition for granting compulsory licences pursuant to the TRIPS agreement
Manu, Thaddeus (2015-11-01)This article examines whether the so-called reasonably affordable requirements of the public remains a valid condition under TRIPS on which World Trade Organisation members can grant compulsory licences. This article frames ... -
Exploring a regional pharmaceutical innovation network as a possible solution to the market failure in the innovation of essential medicines for tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
Manu, Thaddeus (2014)From an economic reasoning perspective, pharmaceutical research and development operates as a pure market activity. This viewpoint suggests innovations are receptive to questions of commerce. It is on this basis the ... -
Ghana TRIPS Over the TRIPS Agreement on Plant Breeders' Rights
Manu, Thaddeus (2017-07)The premise under which the global IP system is validated has often focused on a traditional materialistic approach. While this seems to find legitimate support in economic reasoning, such a fundamental view also appears ... -
Interpretation of TRIPS Provisions in a Manner Consistent with Human Rights Instruments: A Policy Option for the Exploration of South-South Judicial Cooperation
Manu, Thaddeus (2017-05-16)The rigid interface between the enforcement provisions of patents under TRIPS standards and the institutional, technical and human resource capacity deficiencies means that political decisions to exploit the TRIPS flexibilities ... -
Interpreting the Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations in WTO Jurisprudence in its Application to Compulsory Licences
Manu, Thaddeus (2016-06-30)This paper attempts a critical examination of the doctrine of legitimate expectations in relation to non-violation complaints with a view to underlining its doctrinal significance for developing countries to justify the ... -
Is social media challenging the authority of the judiciary? Rethinking the effectiveness of anonymised and super injunctions in the age of the internet
Manu, Thaddeus; Romero Moreno, Felipe (2016-12-30)While freedom of expression has a long and well-established constitutional foundation as a self-governing concept, the right to privacy is a relatively recent norm in the constitutional orientation of the United Kingdom. ... -
Locally working patents and the grant of compulsory licences : the need for stronger statutory provisions in Africa
Manu, Thaddeus (2014)According to a well-established legislative tradition of patent law, failure to work patents while exercising any rights over the patented inventions constitutes an abuse. Consequently, several countries impose affirmative ... -
Multifunctionality of Agriculture Products: Towards Collaborative Policy Guidelines on Sustainable Agro-Related Fuel Development
Manu, Thaddeus (2017-01-23)The primacy of food security overrides that of energy. This is a reasoned view under the United Nations rights-based theories and practice. Within this context, there are voluntary guidelines according to which countries ... -
Self-defeating reasons for signing the African Growth and Opportunity Act : analysing the pressure on African countries to enact UPOV Convention Plant Breeders’ Rights as opposed to effective sui generis regimes under TRIPS
Manu, Thaddeus (2015-03)In the absence of domestic standard-setting, it seems that the legislative landscapes of poor countries are subject to the policy direction of key developed countries which seek the highest returns from transnational trade ...