Abstract
The pharmaceutical patent is the main figure use of Industrial Property; annually thousand of patents are applied in the world in order to protect pharmaceuticals. Of these just a few are new molecules; another part is variants as compositions, process of existing products, manufacturing process, or new indications.
A patent gives public access to information, regarding new technologies for the purpose of stimulate innovation and contribute to economic growth, but in Latin America the pharmaceutical patents have an incipient development.
The purpose of this document is to provide a map of pharmaceutical patents and glimpse the situation in matter of patents in each country of Latin America since a practical way.
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