A concessão de patentes de medicamentos fitoterápicos no Brasil: uma análise do período 1997-2004

Abstract

This work approaches the problem of the wild consumption of natural products in Brazil, specifically herbal medicines, with its consequences, discussing to the light of the Right of Industrial Property and the Sanitary Right. It tries to relate the paper and the responsibility of INPI and ANVISA, organs directly involved in the mentioned legislation, for the improvement of the quality of products registered as herbal medicines and thrown in the Brazilian market. It shows the need of a reevaluation of the approaches of concession of patents for the area analyzed on the part of INPI, as well as larger approach of ANVISA close to this organ, so that they harmonize strategies so that the population has access to medications safe and effective herbal medicines. Explicit the strategies of the national industry of the section in it increases its sales in the market, through bills that don t translate with the strategies suggested by Oms, FOR Complementary/Alternative Medicine use, thwarting the Brazilian legislation for the possible registration on the patented products. It is ended that economic interests, linked to the intransigent competition in the herbal medicines market and nutritional supplements, induce to the concession of patents for such products, in detriment of the existent guidelines in the Law of Brazilian Industrial Property, in evaluation approaches.