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  • Has the Indian Patents Act succeeded in ensuring access to affordable medicine?

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    Prof Biswajit Dhar (in The Leaflet, 16 April 2025) argues that the major flexibilities in the Indian Patent Act – Section 3(d) and the compulsory licensing system – to make medicines affordable, have been under-implemented. As prices of medicines have skyrocketed, secondary patenting has proliferated while compulsory licensing has been invoked only once. In full…

  • Trade disputes over IP and health

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    Thanks to KEI for sharing the following references on trade related bullying. Time-line of Disputes over Compulsory Licensing  and Parallel Importation in South Africa, 1994 to 1999. http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/sa/sa-timeline.txt Susannah Markandya, Timeline of Trade Disputes involving Thailand and access to medicines, July 23, 2001   (Timeline entries from 1979 to 2001). http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/c/thailand/thailand.html Susannah Markandya, Timeline of disputes…