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3 April 2013Patents

India's Novartis ruling: the implications for patent owners

India’s Supreme Court has rejected pharmaceutical company Novartis’s application to patent an updated version of its leukaemia drug Glivec, agreeing with the Comptroller General that it lacked novelty.

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