pharmaceutical industry

Food and Drug Law Institute

Website of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), a non profit organisation established in 1949 to facilitate public discussion and education on laws, regulations and policies affecting health care technologies, food and cosmetics in the United States. The website provides information about the FDLI's mission, staff, the composition of its advisory board and board of directors and its activities. These include organising conferences and academic programmes and publishing periodicals, directories and guides such as the Food & Drug Law Journal and the yearly FDA Directory.

Research guide on TRIPS and compulsory licensing:access to innovative pharmaceuticals for least developed countries

Online guide focusing on the legal and economic factors preventing poorer countries gaining access to innovative drugs, by patent attorney Do Hyung Kim. Pubished on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, it gives background information about the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and looks at the problems of compulsory licensing, such as the risks of arbitrage and counterfeit drugs.

Pathfinder on the generic pharmaceutical industry

Online guide to the United States generic pharmaceutical industry, by Sarah Spear who is pursuing an LLM in Taxation at the Florida Coastal School of Law. The guide was published in June 2006 in LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange), the free online web journal for legal information professionals. The author provides an introduction to the regulation of drug production in the US and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and covers terminology, federal statutes and pharmaceutical patent litigation.

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