Patentes farmacéuticas en Colombia. Entre la protección a la propiedad industrial y la tutela del interés público

This paper purposes to evaluate the limits enforced by the Colombian legal system to the derivative rights from the granting to invention patents in the pharmaceutical sector, in relation to the access to medical products. The evaluation analyses the applicable rules to patent granting, patent protection, and the corresponding vigilance and control duties. It then considers the stress concerning the right to the industrial property and the right to health; it finally offers some recommendations that will help to regulate the industrial property protection mechanisms and general interest, in relation to the access to medicines.