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Indian Patent Office grants compulsory license for Bayer's Nexavar: implications for multinational drug companies

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • India
  • -
  • March 28 2012

The Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks of India (“Controller”) recently granted Natco Pharma Limited (“Natco”), an Indian drug manufacturer, a compulsory license for Bayer AG’s (“Bayer”) Nexavar (sorafenib), an oncology drug that extends the patient’s life but does not cure the underlying condition