1 May 2012PatentsPablo Fuentes

A step forward: new dosage patents in Mexico?

In Mexico, as in most of the IP systems around the world, pharmaceutical patents can be obtained to protect novel drug molecules; intermediate compounds thereof; processes for manufacturing such molecules and intermediates; compositions containing them; and uses of the new molecules in a specific therapeutic way. Likewise, new pharmaceutical formulations, new methods of preparation, new crystalline forms, and new therapeutic uses of already known molecules are also available for protection.

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