Discussion: Positive and Negative Effects of Intellectual Property Rights (Jurist)

Intellectual property protection has both positive and negative effects: in the field of public health, intellectual property protection can also stimulate and promote more and better drugs and medical devices to appear faster. Advantages and disadvantages of intellectual property protection in the field of public health, there are still many scientists at home and abroad who hold different attitudes towards intellectual property system. They believe that intellectual property protection should not penetrate into the medical and health field, let alone affect public health. Therefore, the intellectual achievements produced in the process of fighting SARS should be enjoyed by all mankind. 1. The positive role of intellectual property protection Invention requires venture capital, especially the invention of drug types for treating various diseases. A lot of manpower, material resources and funds must be invested, and a lot of time and creative work must be spent to obtain the possibility of success. The intellectual property system gives inventors the right to monopolize the market for a certain period of time, so that they can get appropriate returns, recover the investment paid by R&D, continue to carry out new invention and creation activities, and promote the upgrading of products. Here, on the one hand, the intellectual property system promotes the early disclosure of technical information, enables people to research, develop and update better drugs or processes at a new and higher starting point, and avoids low-level repeated research; On the other hand, intellectual property protection can effectively prevent imitation. 2. Negative effects of intellectual property protection Of course, the intellectual property system also has disadvantages. For example, some enterprises and countries that lack funds and have weak innovation ability can no longer use other people's advanced scientific research results for free, which will limit the popularization and application of patented technology to some extent; In addition, due to the exclusiveness of intellectual property rights, it will inhibit the free competition of others to a certain extent, resulting in the high price of some products related to public health such as drugs and medical devices during the intellectual property protection period, thus increasing the burden on consumers. However, advantages and disadvantages are relative and can be transformed into each other. In the field of public health, intellectual property protection can also stimulate and promote more and better drugs and medical devices to appear faster. Life is life, something is better than nothing, and more is better than less. It is worthwhile to pay a certain price for this. Overall consideration, weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the author believes that the advantages of intellectual property protection still outweigh the disadvantages. Can be used as a reference. You have asked this question once.