Showing posts with label generics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label generics. Show all posts
26 July 2014

Big Pharma Accused Of Patent Plot Of 'Satanic Magnitude' By South African Health Minister

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Here on Techdirt we've written a number of times about India's efforts to provide key drugs to its population at prices that the...
24 July 2014

India's Approach To Pharma Patents Under US Attack, But Other BRICS Nations Likely To Adopt It

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Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...
20 July 2013

'Pay For Delay' Drug Deals Under Scrutiny In US, EU And UK

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The last time Techdirt wrote about " pay for delay " deals, whereby a big pharma company essentially buys off manufacturers o...

Cambodian Activists Explain Why The EU-India FTA Is A Matter Of Life And Death

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One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...

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...
10 February 2013

Pharma Companies Try 'DRM' For Drugs As A Ploy To Stymie Generics

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One of the striking features of the drug world is how pharma companies become noticeably more inventive immediately before their patents...
13 October 2012

Emerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma's Losing Patent Battles In India

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Techdirt has been following the important story of the kidney and liver cancer drug marketed under the name Nexavar since March , when In...
15 July 2012

India Moves Even More Of Its Healthcare Away From Western Pharma

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A few years back, Techdirt noted that India had 16,000 licensed drug manufacturers in the 1990s, and became a net exporter of pharmaceut...
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...
27 April 2012

Kenya's High Court Rules Anti-Counterfeiting Law Is Unconstitutional Because It Threatens Access To Generic Drugs

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Back in 2009, Techdirt wrote about an interesting challenge to a then-new law against counterfeits in Kenya, on the grounds that it migh...
28 November 2008

Patently Outrageous

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Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commissi...
30 August 2007

How Do You Say "Frogmarched" in Swahili?

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A proposal to set up a Pan-African Intellectual Property Organisation (PAIPO) though still in its infancy already faces opposition and conce...
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...