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ShareMumbai: With the government last week accepting the Mashelkar Committee Report on pharmaceutical patents, the stage is set for a new battle over patents and public health.
The report, which made headlines in 2007 for being plagiarised from a UK study funded by pharma companies, was re-submitted to the government a few months ago. It, however, carries the same conclusions as the last time, albeit with stronger reasoning.
The report notes that restricting grant of patent for a pharmaceutical substance to a new chemical entity (NCE) or new medical entity (NME) and excluding micro-organisms from the ambit of patents would not be compatible with Article 27 of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement of the World Trade Organisation.
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