[e-drug] European antitrust regulators raid drug companies - IHT

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E-DRUG: European antitrust regulators raid drug companies - IHT
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There is a longish article in the International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/business/drug.php 

"BRUSSELS <http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/business/drug.php> :

European antitrust regulators raided some of the Continent's biggest
pharmaceutical companies Wednesday as part of a far-reaching investigation
into whether drug makers were preventing inexpensive generic medicines from
reaching millions of consumers in the European market.

Inspectors took confidential information about intellectual property rights,
litigation and settlements in patent disputes in a series of surprise visits
to major drug makers. The European Commission declined to identify the
companies, but GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Wyeth, Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries, Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer said they had been contacted."

- Michael Keizer (student, La Trobe University)
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