Washington is warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make their own versions.
The US PEPFAR initiative has brought HIV medication to millions of people globally. Behind this progress are the activists that pressured politicians and companies to put patients over patents.
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld district court findings of invalidity and noninfringement in Hatch-Waxman case involving two sets of method patents directed to modulating dosages of pirfenidone, drug used to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
The Medicines Patent Pool was created to promote public health, facilitating generic licensing for patented drugs that treat diseases predominantly affecting low- and middle-income countries.