[silk] Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11053 Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk * 15:52 29 January 2007 * NewScientist.com news service * New Scientist staff and Reuters Tens of thousands of people being treated for AIDS will suffer if Swiss pharmaceutical

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Please sign if you think Novartis is not doing the right thing. http://www.gopetition.com/online/10972.html Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11053 Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk * 15:52 29 January 2007 * NewScientist.com news service

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Another petition. Please pass it on to your friends. Maybe we can make a difference. http://www.petitiononline.com/Novartis/petition.html Venkat Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11053 Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk * 15:52 29 January 2007

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Venkat Mangudi wrote: Another petition. Please pass it on to your friends. Maybe we can make a difference. http://www.petitiononline.com/Novartis/petition.html Venkat They'll make bugger all a difference.. canned petitions and other astroturf campaigns never did have a reasonable effect

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I hate it when articles lack substantive information. The practice they're trying to change is what's known as 'evergreening' a patent. I'd love to get ahold of the actual preliminary bits -- apparently, Novartis has already filed for protection (through an exclusive marketing rights agreement)