Intellectual Property Rights in Germany enjoy a strong legal framework. The German legal system is advanced and offers robust protection for intellectual property rights. Both the European Patent Office (EPO) and the German Patent and Trademark Office, also known as Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt(DPMA) man...Read More
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A concept for a Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) And Access To Healthcare , arose in response to a problem caused by a lack of access to key medications in underdeveloped countries. Initially, two non-governmental organizations, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)/Doctors With...Read More
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Antibiotic tablets development and dissemination is one of a handful of early twentieth-century breakthrough innovations that altered health, clinical practice, and industry. Sulfa medicines (discovered in Germany in the 1930s), penicillin (invented in the United Kingdom in the 1930s, but initially mass produced ...Read More
With medical development in India and more devices being manufactured in India, the Indian Government has bought a change in the law concerning medical devices. Through the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (DCA) and Medical Devices Rules, 2017 (MDR), the Indian Government-regulated 37 categories of medical devices where the manufacture and importer of those medical devices requires a license for those devices. Meanwhile, the change bought...Read More
Intellectual property systems are created to incentivize and safeguard the rights of creators and inventors. More specifically, patent regimes that are in place across the world can help safeguard an invention for a limited period of time. Patents carry great relevance in the pharmaceutical industry by contributing u...Read More
Venus Remedies is a pharmaceutical conglomerate that is research-driven, with an outstanding global presence. Since the year 2004, Venus Remedies has played a pivotal role in research related to infectious diseases in India. The company is based out of Baddi in Himachal Pradesh and has a global presence in over 70 countries. Venus Remedies also manages a team of over a thousand healthcare professionals. The company is also widely known for manufact...Read More
Patent Ever-greening has been largely used by the pharmaceutical industry for extending their patent protection. Industries generally use various legal and technological strategies to extend the term. Establishing or partnering with the generic establishment are some external strategies being used by the industries. But the majorly used strategy is the intentional minor modification of the old drugs thereby, obt...Read More
The outbreak of Covid-19 has set the eyes of the world towards finding a suitable vaccine for the virus. Data Exclusivity is the period of non-reliance and non-disclosure that is provided to new chemical entities and pharmaceutical composition. There is a difference between what we understand as Data Protection and Data Exclusivity. Both cannot be used interchangeably. As the name suggests, data exclusivity is %...Read More
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in the Valeant Pharmaceuticals v. Mylan pharmaceuticals, held that “acts of infringement” in Hatch-Waxman litigation occurs where actions related to the submission of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) occur, not where the future distribution of a generic product specified in an ANDA is planned.<%2...Read More