Question

what is the main ethical dilemma or dilemmas you see related to intellectual property protection in the healthcare field?

Answer 1

Ethics are the principles on the basis of which we differentiate between right and wrong.

Intellectual property is the intangible property that is the result of creativity such as patients etc .

The main ethical dilemma related to intellectual property protection is in some of the main fields of health care that are :-

- genomics

- vaccines

- pharmaceutical

- genetic testing

There main ethical dilemma related to the intellectual property protection is whether to ensure universal "access" to downstream health benefits while maintaining incentives for further innovation . Here it's talking about the access to different health care services like medicines , tests etc . For example some of the patent medicines are not made available to the people because patent drugs are sold only when the government gives the right to sell the patent drug and this is done to protect the patent drug from being copied by others in the market and hence is kept for further innovation .