This lecture will be useful for all students and faculty members interested in intellectual property and the issue of drug patents in developing countries – in which there is a critical debate between the protections of drug patents demanded by the drug companies and the suffering of patients from deadly diseases. 

Peter Howitt holds degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Tasmania, Australia. Peter has completed a Graduate Certificate in Legal Practice and was admitted to practice law in 2000 in Australia. He has worked with the large commercial law firms, Middleton’s Moore and Bevins in Melbourne Australia, on complex commercial litigation. He also has considerable experience in business and as an educator in Paris and Taipei, as a consultant to large commercial firms. Currently, he works in Tokyo as a consultant with a firm liaising with MNCs, providing advice and business assistance to these companies and educating them in new developments in law and business. 

All PUC STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY MEMBERS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND.