Drug firms in patents frenzy

Even with the rejection of the appeal by from Novartis AG by the High Court in Madras on the ground that it was only an incremental innovation, the pharmaceutical companies appear to be aggressively pursuingand securingpatents for drugs that would fall under Indias frivolous patenting guidelines that bar such incremental innovations from getting patent protection.The [...]

NGO takes Novartis battle online

Times Of India

Activists Will Continue to Push Boycott of Novartis

By Keya Acharya , IPS news

BANGALORE, Aug 27 (IPS) – Activist groups campaigning for affordable drugs will continue their boycott campaign against Swiss pharma major Novartis AG, whose controversial petition arguing that Indian patent laws violated World Trade Organisation (WTO) provisions was rejected by the Madras High Court in southern Chennai city.
The reason for continuing [...]