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Patent on Improvements- Did the Novartis Case Really Solve the Issue?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

India, which followed the approach of process patenting to pharmaceuticals switched over to product patenting by way of an amendment in 2005 in order to be in consonance with the TRIPs agreement. However, India also used the flexibility offered by the WTO rules, which while setting a minimum standard for patent protection, restrained from ...