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Novartis fought a seven-year, controversial battle to patent Gleevec in India, and took the case all the way to the Indian Supreme Court, where the patent application was finally rejected. The patent application at the center of the case was filed by Novartis in India in 1998, after India had agreed to enter the World Trade Organization and to ...
Novartis v. Union of India & Others is a landmark decision by a two-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court on the issue of whether Novartis could patent Gleevec in India, and was the culmination of a seven-year-long litigation fought by Novartis. The Supreme Court upheld the Indian patent office's rejection of the patent application.
In 2017, the ABX patent was also acquired by Endocyte [16] and Endocyte together with the above two sets of patents was acquired by Novartis in 2018. [17] Efficacy and safety was initially investigated as a compassionate access treatment in Germany with high tumor targeting and low doses to normal organs. [18]
Novartis v. Union of India & Others is a landmark decision, in which Indian Supreme Court upheld rejection of Novartis patent by Indian patent office. The key basis for the rejection was the part of Indian patent law that was created by amendment in 2005, describing the patentability of new uses for known drugs and modifications of known drugs.
It is Novartis' proprietary adjuvant that is added to influenza vaccines to help stimulate the human body's immune response through production of CD4 memory cells. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] MF59 is the first oil-in-water influenza vaccine adjuvant to be commercialized in combination with a seasonal influenza virus vaccine.
Novartis had filed a patent for Glivec in 1997. [30] An exclusive marketing right was also granted for Novartis in 2003 and the application were approved in 2005 . [ 30 ] In 2013, the Supreme Court of India upheld the rejection of the patent application of Glivec by Novartis , [ 31 ] ending the 10-years battle between the proprietary drug ...
In 2015, after a challenge at the US Patent and Trademark Office by a generic competitor, the patent office quashed Novartis's patent claims stating they were obvious. Novartis appealed and the federal circuit upheld the patent office decision in April 2017, leaving a high likelihood of generics coming to market by 2019. [36]
Canakinumab was being developed by Novartis for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but this trial was completed in October 2009. [14] Canakinumab is also in phase I clinical trials as a possible treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, [15] gout, and coronary artery disease (the CANTOS trial [16]). It is also in trials for ...