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Case Code: LAW004
Case Length: 3 Pages 
Period: 2005-2016    
Pub Date: 2016
Teaching Note: Not Available
Price: Rs.100
Organization :-
Industry : Pharmaceutical
Countries : India
Themes:  -
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Finance
Human Resource Management
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Operations
Economics
Law

IPR: Save Patients or Patents?

 

ABSTRACT

 
In 2013, Novartis, a multinational Swiss based pharmaceutical company was denied a patent by Indian government for its cancer drug named Glivec (Gleevac in U.S). The drug had been mainstay product of Novartis since 2001. India had refused to patent the drug on the grounds that it didn’t qualify for a new medicine but was only an amended version of the original compound.

The case describes section how section 3(d) of IPR was used to stop ever-greening of drug patent but also puts light on repercussions on the global pharmaceutical industry.
 
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Issues

The case is structured to achieve the following teaching objectives:
  • Understand section 3(d) of IPR.
  • Understand ever-greening of drugs and its repercussions on individuals as well as Pharmaceutical industry.
Contents
INTRODUCTION

Keywords

Novartis, IPR, Section 3(d), Pharmaceutical industry, Glivec, patent

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