Colombia considers compulsory licence for Novartis’s Gleevec

20-05-2016

Colombia considers compulsory licence for Novartis’s Gleevec

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Colombia’s health ministry has warned Novartis that it might override a patent that the company owns covering cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib). 


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