The Indian Supreme Court’s rejection of Novartis’s Glivec patent brought the increasingly tense debate about the balance between patent rights and access to medicines to the forefront. Anand Grover, who successfully represented the Cancer Patient Aid Association in the case, argues that the patent system may not be the best way to encourage drug research
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Rebecca Newman at Addleshaw Goddard, who live-reported on the seminal dispute, unpicks the trials and tribulations of the case and considers its impact
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