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26 October 2013
Using Patents To Needlessly Drive Up Healthcare Costs: The Economic Impact Of Evergreening Drugs
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One technique in the world of pharma that has started appearing here on Techdirt is "evergreening" -- making small changes t...
19 September 2013
EU Vote on Clinical Trials Data - Please Contact MEPs Now
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I've written a few times about open data in the context of clinical trials - the information that must be provided when new drugs s...
20 July 2013
How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat From Seed Generics -- And Failing To Keep The Patent Bargain
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Recently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use " evergreening " to extend their control over drugs as the patents ex...
14 April 2013
Indian Supreme Court Rejects Trivial 'Evergreening' Of Pharma Patents
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Back in October last year, in the context of India showing itself increasingly sceptical about pharma patents that drive up drug prices...
08 December 2012
Thailand To Join TPP Negotiations; Access To Medicines Likely To Suffer As A Consequence
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Although things have gotten rather quiet on the TPP front, that doesn't mean that the juggernaut has been halted. On the contrary: ...
23 July 2012
Is This Chemical Why File Sharers Buy More Music?
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One of the great divides in the digital world is between those who believe that people who share files online are selfish, thieving pirate...
23 June 2012
After India And Brazil, Now China Takes Steps To Allow Cheap Versions Of Patented Drugs
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In recent months, Techdirt has reported on an important development in the world of medicine, as both India and Brazil have allowed loca...
10 June 2012
Generics Drive Down Drug Prices In India, TPP Trying To Stop That
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Back in March, we wrote about an important development in India, where a compulsory license for Bayer's Nexavar anti-cancer drug was g...
30 December 2011
Johnson & Johnson Refuses To License Three HIV Drugs To Medicines Patent Pool; Invites Patent Override
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By their very nature, drug patents can create monopolies that allow prices to be kept artificially high. In other domains that may be si...
06 June 2011
The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies
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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
04 December 2008
"War" on File-Sharing is like "War" on Drugs
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What I find most striking about Tom’s post is that advocates of copyright maximalism are becoming increasingly candid about the tensions bet...
03 November 2008
ACTA of Hypocrisy
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I've written several times about the mysterious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ), which is currently being negotiated behin...
05 November 2007
A Passionate Plea Against Patents
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One of the winners of the the 2007 essay contest on " Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries " i...
09 August 2007
Pecunia non Olet
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Doncha just love the sweet smell of business? Medical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is suing the American Red Cross, alleging the ch...
27 November 2006
Enclosing the Pharmaceutical Commons
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The biotechnology industry has proposed to change the international generic naming of medicine ingredients, which at the moment are public p...
20 July 2006
Why Linus Still Matters
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A little while ago I wrote about a slightly provocative list from Business 2.0 that suggested that a certain Linus Torvalds doesn't re...
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