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Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

...y. India's recognition of pharmaceutical product patents and establishment of new regulatory bodies will likely draw more foreign investors seeking outsourcing opportunities in the country. Additionally, the creation of a suitable infrastructure coupled with an increase in healthcare as well as drug and ph...

Olive-pomace Oil Compound Inhibits HIV Spread

... allowing researchers from Granada to register two patents on behalf of the UGR to produce drugs for treatmen...of Granada has already registered almost ten other patents related to this compound's properties. Maslinic acid is also a very active compound in opportunist...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

...hen and how governments may "break" pharmaceutical patents may end up significantly reducing incentives for ...has few limitations on which countries can 'break' patents simply to control costs, what circumstances create a necessary condition, or even what level of remu...

Roche Completes Acquisition of BioVeris

...2007. This means Roche Diagnostics now owns the patents for Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) technology and can expand its immunochemistry business from the human diagnostics field into new market segments such as life sciences research, life science development, patient self-testing, veterinary testing, dr...

Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research

...u's innovations are now protected by international patents (IPs). He says: "We have the licence to use 100 embryos to make six lines. We will endeavour to take the IPs to the next level - commercialisation - with the primary aim of better care for patients. "My research has great relevance for India, whic...

Replacing a Genome Boosts Race to Develop Designer Bugs: Study

...hey are developed. To that end, they are seeking patents on the methods they used in this study. The researchers took the genome of a simple, one-celled organism called Mycoplasma mycoides and transplanted it into a close relative, M. capricolum. Both of these bacteria, which are innocuous goat pathoge...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

...several technologies transferred to industries and patents (including US patents) to its credit. Initiatives have been taken to promote transgenic research in plants with emphasis on pest and disease resistance, nutritional quality, silk-worm genome analysis, molecular biology of human genetic disorders, bra...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...ts AIDS activists- the government has stripped the patents of three anti-AIDS drugs. In response to this, the United States has placed Thailand on a list of copyright violators .In Bangkok, AIDS activists rallied outside the U.S. Embassy on Thursday protesting the decision. Meanwhile in Brazil, the govern...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...d Thailand on Monday for steps it took to override patents of two HIV/AIDS drugs, but stopped short of threatening action at the World Trade Organization. The U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR), said it was elevating Thailand to its "priority watch list" because of an "overall deterioration in the p...

Gilead's AIDS Drug Awaits Patent in India

...ainst the patent application for Viread before the patents office. But Alton said: "We believe that protecting the intellectual property of companies who engage in drug research and development is a critical part of the treatment access equation. Intellectual property protection, when used responsibly, enc...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

... practice of yoga overseas, the US denied granting patents on yoga positions. In the same breath, the US embassy said here that it has granted patents on "new and non-obvious devices that may be used in conjunction with yoga". However, those patents w...

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

...ome discoverers of them have been prompted to file patents over them for commercial gain -- amount to only around a twentieth, or even less, of the genetic code. In between the genes and the sequences known to regulate their activity are long, tedious stretches that appear to do nothing. The term for them ...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...d Thailand on Monday for steps it took to override patents of two HIV/AIDS drugs, but stopped short of threatening action at the World Trade Organization. The U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR), said it was elevating Thailand to its "priority watch list" because of an "overall deterioration in the p...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...ts AIDS activists- the government has stripped the patents of three anti-AIDS drugs. In response to this, the United States has placed Thailand on a list of copyright violators .In Bangkok, AIDS activists rallied outside the U.S. Embassy on Thursday protesting the decision. Meanwhile in Brazil, the govern...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop “Next Generation” Vaccine Candidats

...several technologies transferred to industries and patents (including US patents) to its credit. Initiatives have been taken to promote transgenic research in plants with emphasis on pest and disease resistance, nutritional quality, silk-worm genome analysis, molecular biology of human genetic disorders, bra...

Abbott Offers Aluvia to Thailand in Return for Compulsory Licensing Halt

...any said that its offer would only apply where its patents are respected, a clear warning to the Thai government. According to the Wall Street Journal, Abbott chief executive Miles White said that the decision to withdraw Aluvia from registration had been driven by “concern that compulsory licensing would...

Abbott to Subsidize Price of HIV Drug

...scussions with individual countries where Abbott's patents are respected to maximize the number of patients t.... At the same time the Abbott affirmed that the patents of scientists and inventors must exist so that there were incentives for sustained research and deve...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

...ns of the Patent Controller in granting or denying patents since 2005. According to an estimate, there are about 20 patent related cases to be decided in various courts. Only on April 2 the government issued the notification on declaring that the provision in the Patents (Amendment) Act (Section 117G), wh...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...wed only for traditional, chemical compounds whose patents have expired. You can't get them for complex biological drugs such as hormones or antibodies used in cancer treatments. Some of the world's most potent and popular medicines fall into this biotech basket, and existing federal laws prevent them from g...

Patent Problems in US – Over Stem Cell Researc

...a preliminary decision to revoke three fundamental patents on human embryonic stem cells granted in the last ...ent examiners rejected all the claims of the three patents based on the works of James A.Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, perhaps the first to isolate h...

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