16.12.2014
- Bayer has failed in the last round of its effort to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India. In a Dec. 12 decision, the country's Supreme...
08.04.2014
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli generics drugmaker, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a lower court ruling from going into effect while the...
01.04.2014
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Mar. 31 agreed to hear an appeal filed by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in a patent fight over top-selling multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. The move...
02.04.2013
- India's top court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis's attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive...
27.03.2013
- Global drugmakers, battered by recent intellectual property decisions in India, are girding for a landmark court ruling next week that could have broad consequences for their...
04.03.2013
- An Indian patent appeals board dismissed on Monday Bayer's petition against a government decision to allow a domestic company to sell cheap copycat versions of cancer drug Nexavar...
05.07.2012
- India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of hundreds of millions, but a ban on branded drugs...
09.06.2012
- China has overhauled parts of its intellectual property laws to allow its drugmakers to make cheap copies of medicines still under patent protection in an initiative likely to...