Published Online:July 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Applied Economics
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJAE040724
Author Name:Sai Sailaja Bharatam , Aditi Kalluri and Sridip S Nambiar
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Economics
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Pages:10
The aim of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is to protect the rights of innovators, i.e., producers, while the goal of competition law is to protect the rights of end users, i.e., consumers. Therefore, an IP owner runs into conflict with competition law only in the event of a transgression in his capacity as an IP owner if such transgression distorts competition
Early in September 2022, Gambia’s health authorities began looking into possible connections between the use of a paracetamol syrup prescribed for fever, cough, cold, and pain, and the deaths of many children from acute kidney damage. By late July, doctors noticed a sharp increase in the number of cases of serious kidney damage in children under five, and they thought that these cases might be related to medications.