Managing Intellectual Property

India to hold hearing on Roche/Pfizer drugs exports

14 July 2008

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

Pharmaceutical companies Roche and Pfizer have won the right to a hearing to oppose Natco Pharma’s applications to export patented medicines using a compulsory licence

On July 4 the Patent Office dismissed a petition by Natco Pharma opposing the decision by the Patent Office to hear the arguments of the patentees before deciding whether or not to grant the licences.

In September last year Hyderabad-based generic company Natco Pharma applied to the Delhi Patent Office for compulsory licences to...



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