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Tag Archives: patent
India Compulsory License: A Times of India Article Says It’s Not Helping the Poor
India recently issued a compulsory license on Bayer’s liver and kidney cancer drug (Sorafenib) with the stated goal of providing access to India’s poor. However, the Times of India recently ran the article Cheap generics drugs no panacea for India’s poorest, quickly dispelling this myth: “The compulsory license system might not really work because poor people cannot even afford the discounted price,” said G. Balachandhran, former head of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), India’s drug Read More >
Mayo v. Prometheus: BIO Statement on Supreme Court Decision
By Hans Sauer, Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property, Biotechnology Industry Organization We are surprised and disappointed in the Court’s decision, which disregarded the considered judgment of the Executive Branch experts and numerous amici such as BIO, who warned about the unintended consequences of attempting to use patent eligibility as a basis to strike down these patents for biomarker-based diagnostic methods. While we are still analyzing the opinion, we are concerned that it introduces new and Read More >
Patent “Ever-Greening”: Novartis Confronts Patent Myth in India
India’s ‘increased efficacy’ patentability requirement for medicines prevents an improved form of a known drug from receiving a patent unless the new form is significantly more effective than the previously-known form. This provision aims to accomplish one task: stop patent “ever-greening.” This issue has risen to prominence lately as the New York Times reports on the Novartis suit challenging patent ever-greening requirements in India’s Supreme Court. So what is patent ever-greening? Opponents claim that corporations Read More >
Patents for Humanity
By David Kappos, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Originally Published on USPTO Director’s Forum Sweeping revolutions in technology continue to fundamentally redefine the way we connect with one another and interact with the world. Today, an entrepreneur can do business with a remote village across an ocean just as quickly as a student in Boston can video-conference with a professor in Beijing. Political rallies can be organized by the click of Read More >
PTO Genetic Testing Study: What’s Patents Got to Do with It
The USPTO held a hearing on February 16 to collect testimony from interested parties to discuss factors affecting the availability of confirmatory, or second opinion, genetic testing. However, the hearing quickly devolved into testimonies addressing so called ‘gene patents’ and genetic testing more broadly. Dr. Hans Sauer testified on behalf of BIO and first raised the question whether there is in fact patient demand for an ‘independent second opinion genetic test.’ While doctors would likely Read More >
