Activists protest Novartis challenge to Indian patent law

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Feb 29 2012

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In this guest post in the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog, Brook Baker of the Northeastern University School of Law Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, "describe[s] and comment[s] on pharmaceutical company Novartis's court challenge to India's strict standards of patenting medicine" and worldwide protests against the company that took place last week prior to its shareholder meeting (Mazzotta, 2/27).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

Posted in: Healthcare News | Medical Patent News | Pharmaceutical News

Tags: Global Health, Health Care, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Research

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