Examination of Legal Aspects of Collaboration Contracts in Drug Delivery

Collaboration in drug delivery is a project by which a pharmecutical product is delivered through the cooperation of two or more legal persons. In this cooperation, a party contributes to the project with know-how and formula of a medicine and the other party provides site, necessary fund and equepments. Success in such a project requires a legal agreement entitled collaboration contracts in drug delivery. The contract is governed generally by Civil Code and general principles of contracts, and specifically by pharmecutical regulations provided by the ministry of health and food and drug administration. These regulations include the rules and contractual delivery and the regulations drug registration. In this contract, medicial and phamacutical terms sould be harmonized with legal principles and rules so that not only is the contract comprehensive but also it would be able to prevent disputes and bring about legal security for parties and help to fulfill the goals of projects. Issues such as intellectual property aspects, civil responsibility to the customers and gauantee of the results, or otherwise, are the critical subjects that sould be foreseen in such contracts. In addition, the contracts should be written in full accordance with regulations of ffod and drug administration sinceit is necessary to obtain marketing permission and liesence of drug delivery. These points highlights the importance of such contracts. This article tries to examine and analyze legal aspects of the collaboration contracts in drug delivery in practice.