News reports indicate that the Government has been treading carefully regarding decisions to compulsorily licence drugs. This is in the wake of severe criticism of the Indian IP regime from Big Pharma and a few first world countries, most notably the US. As per the report, the Government was considering granting compulsory licence to three drugs, and ultimately the decision boiled down to one drug- Dasatinib. Dasatinib is the cancer drug for which BDR Pharma’s application for a compulsory licence was rejected by the Indian...
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