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Novartis Challenge Against India’s Pro-Health Patent Law Heads to Indian Supreme Court

 

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NEW DELHI/GENEVA/NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–SEPTEMBER 11, 2012—The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices that keep medicine prices high, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.

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