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Does India's Glivec Decision Make April Fools of Us All?

By Guest Blogger | Published: April 5, 2013
By Helen Disney, Pugatch Consilium. On April 1, India’s Supreme Court denied an appeal challenging the rejection of a patent for Novartis’s cancer drug, Glivec. The drug is a life-saving medicine for certain forms of cancer, patented in nearly 40 other countries — including many which are not noted for the strength of their intellectual property [...]
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The Patent Black Label: Six Side-Effects of India's Novartis Glivec Ruling

By William Looney | Published: April 3, 2013
Monday’s decision by India’s Supreme Court to deny a patent for the top-selling oncologic drug Glivec took nearly a decade of litigation to resolve – but the implications in and beyond India are both immediate and lasting.  Here’s a list of six that Pharm Exec thinks are most important:
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R&D Trends for 2013: Data Trims, Partnerships, and Emerging Global Players

By Clark Herman | Published: January 14, 2013
The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) sees two key trends as increasingly important for pharmaceutical companies to maintain success: eliminating the bane of extraneous data and fostering collaborations with academia and multi-company consortia both as measures of reducing costs and remaining competitive by more quickly and effectively guiding medicines to market. [...]
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FDA Finding Fuels Indian Crackdown on Sub-standard Drugs

By Guest Blogger | Published: July 27, 2011
By Mangesh Sai, Asia Correspondent. A routine monthly inspection carried out by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) authorities in the state of Maharashtra, India, last month noted an increase in the number of sub-standard drug samples raising apprehensions about the availability of safe and genuine drugs in the state. Officials pointed out that 26 drug samples [...]
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Indian Government Proposes Ban on Physician Gifts

By Ben Comer | Published: June 6, 2011
India’s Department of Pharmaceuticals released a 14-page “voluntary code” for drug marketers, which includes a strict ban on gifts to prescribers, among other things. The code, which is open for public comment until June 30th, states that “no gifts, pecuniary advantages or benefits in kind may be supplied, offered or promised to persons qualified to prescribe” [...]
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