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		<title>Why MNC Pharma Still Moans Over Indian IP Ecosystem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving patient access to expensive drugs, paving the way for entry of their cheaper generic equivalents, post patent expiry, and avoiding evergreening, is assuming priority a priority focus area in many countries. The United States is no exception, in this &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/why-mnc-pharma-still-moans-over-indian-ip-ecosystem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>India Needs More Integrated, High Quality E-Commerce Initiatives In Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=7745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the digital space of India, many startups have been actively engaged in giving shape to a good number interesting and path breaking ideas, especially since the last ten years. One such area is ‘electronic commerce’ or ‘e-commerce’. In the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/india-needs-more-integrated-high-quality-e-commerce-initiatives-in-healthcare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Patents Act To Prevail Undiluted…Finally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=6867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Curiously enough, what a little birdie told me just a couple of weeks ago, very similar to that I read in various media reports even less than a week later. It was related to a somewhat trepidatious national policy in the making on &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/indian-patents-act-to-prevail-undilutedfinally/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Has Prime Minister Modi Conceded Ground To America On Patents Over Patients?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=6060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unprecedented high profile engagement of the Indian Prime Minister with various interested groups during his recent visit to the United States under equally unprecedented media glare, has invited overwhelmingly more kudos than brickbats, from across the world. However, in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/has-prime-minister-modi-conceded-ground-to-america-on-patents-over-patients/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pharma: Now A ‘Chink in Its Armor’?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=5000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emerging trends bring to the fore a possible ‘Chink in the Armor’ of the ‘Big Pharma’, despite a number of recent belligerent moves. One such move I had deliberated in my earlier blog post. There I mentioned that 2014 report &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/big-pharma-now-a-chink-in-its-armour/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“India is The Biggest Battlefield for Intellectual Property Rights”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Senator Orrin Hatch reportedly made the above comment while introducing the 2014 report on ‘International Intellectual Property (IP) Index’, prepared by an Israel based consultancy firm &#8211; Pugatch Consilium for the Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC) of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/india-is-the-biggest-battlefield-for-intellectual-property-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma FDI: Damning Report of Parliamentary Panel, PM Vetoes&#8230;and Avoids Ruffling Feathers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting situation emerged last week. The Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Commerce proposed a blanket ban on all FDI in brownfield pharma sector. Just two days after that, the Prime Minister of India vetoed the joint opposition of the Department &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/pharma-fdi-damning-report-of-parliamentary-panel-pm-vetoes-and-avoids-ruffling-feathers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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