[india-drug] IP-Watch: India Considers Compulsory Licenses For Exportation Of Drugs (1)

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IP-Watch: India Considers Compulsory Licenses For Exportation of Drugs (1)
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Dear friends,
I am pleased to see that some movement is taking place in India for issue of Compulsory licenses for costly drugs, but I hope that medical professionals take active part in championing this movement here, and lead the way forward, to help the poor patients all over the world. Brazil and Thailand are already showing the way and far ahead of us in
this respect. Please read this link, and let us discuss this issue in detail.
Thank you.


 February 20, 2008. India Considers Compulsory Licenses For Exportation of Drugs

By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch The Indian government will consider whether it should grant permission for patented drugs to be manufactured and exported without the consent of the patent owners at a hearing scheduled for the last week of
February. If the government agrees to the application, it would be the first time such permission has been given in India and only the second time in the world. The decision also would be controversial, as it likely would bring a reaction from patent holders in industry.

Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog

Rtn Dr NV Girish Kumar
MBBS Dortho FRCS (Ire) FRCS (Trauma & Ortho)
O'Brien Bone & Joint Clinic
Coimbatore - 641002