IDENTITY IN LAW: THE SECOND MEDICAL USE AND THE DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES

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  • Marcos Chein Feres Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

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https://doi.org/10.17768/pbl.y3.n3-4.p124-142

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to presenting a normative political institutional approach, which may creatively reconstruct the hermeneutics of the Brazilian Industrial Property Rights Act in the specific case of the second medical use of known substances in the matter of drugs for neglected diseases. However, the fact of having the same chemical substance, as a point of departure, might signify that the incremented drug does not fulfil the requisites of patentability according to the traditional legal deduction practised in Brazilian courts. Methodologically, the theoretical reference here applied consists of the fusion between the ideas of law as integrity, developed by Dworkin, and law as identity, complemented by Taylor’s social theory of identity and Bankowski’s proposal of living lawfully. In fact, this methodological approach proposes the reconstruction of a system of analytical concepts based on contemporary legal theory in order to legitimatise public decisions whose purpose is to foster the research and development of drugs for neglected diseases. In this context, the legal concepts of novelty, non-obviousness and industrial application listed in the Brazilian Industrial Property Rights Act are reinterpreted according to the theoretical reference of identity in law.

 

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Published

2015-11-01

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Feres, M. C. (2015). IDENTITY IN LAW: THE SECOND MEDICAL USE AND THE DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES. PANORAMA OF BRAZILIAN LAW, 3(3-4), 124–142. https://doi.org/10.17768/pbl.y3.n3-4.p124-142

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Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): PANORAMA OF BRAZILIAN LAW

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