Comments on: Why Won’t Andrew Witty Take the Dive? (Updated 7/30/10) http://blog.pharmexec.com/2010/07/29/greedy-glaxo-snubs-new-aids-drug-patent-pool/ The Business of Pharmaceuticals Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:53:10 -0500 hourly 1 By: 1971thistle http://blog.pharmexec.com/2010/07/29/greedy-glaxo-snubs-new-aids-drug-patent-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-78373 1971thistle Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:03 +0000 http://blog.pharmexec.com/?p=1847#comment-78373 "Generic manufacturers—the logical innovators" Is that not an oxymoron? Surely by definition a generic manufacturer copies the innovator drug, and therefore does not innovate? “Generic manufacturers—the logical innovators”

Is that not an oxymoron? Surely by definition a generic manufacturer copies the innovator drug, and therefore does not innovate?

]]> By: Esteban Burrone http://blog.pharmexec.com/2010/07/29/greedy-glaxo-snubs-new-aids-drug-patent-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-78369 Esteban Burrone Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:13:44 +0000 http://blog.pharmexec.com/?p=1847#comment-78369 This is just a clarification from UNITAID that, while a number of companies have been in discussions with the UNITAID Medicines Patent Pool initiative, no licensing agreements have yet been reached with any companies. For further information, please see the statement posted on the UNITAID website at: http://www.unitaid.eu/en/20100722271/News/UNITAID-STATEMENT-ON-THE-MEDICINES-PATENT-POOL.html Esteban Burrone, Policy Officer, Medicines Patent Pool Initiative, UNITAID This is just a clarification from UNITAID that, while a number of companies have been in discussions with the UNITAID Medicines Patent Pool initiative, no licensing agreements have yet been reached with any companies. For further information, please see the statement posted on the UNITAID website at: http://www.unitaid.eu/en/20100722271/News/UNITAID-STATEMENT-ON-THE-MEDICINES-PATENT-POOL.html
Esteban Burrone, Policy Officer, Medicines Patent Pool Initiative, UNITAID

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