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		<title>Access to Medicine: Losing Track in Cacophony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian Healthcare space is by and large an arena, where perceptions prevail over the changing reality in many important areas. Consequently, fierce discourse in those areas mostly gives rise to a cacophony of ‘Your Perceptions Against Mine’. It is intriguing, why even &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/access-to-medicine-losing-track-in-cacophony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Big Pharma&#8217; Prowls Falter: Triggers Off Yet Another Critical Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Big Pharma&#8217; prowls faltered yet again exposing the ‘fault line’ to all, when the GSK global head honcho, a pharma icon in his own right, Sir Andrew Witty supported the pharmaceutical policy of India, while in the country earlier &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/big-pharma-prowls-falter-triggers-off-yet-another-critical-debate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing IPR with Public Health Interest: Brickbats, Power Play and Bouquets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now a widely accepted dictum that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), especially pharma patents, help fostering innovation and is critical in meeting unmet needs of the patients. However, the moot question still remains, what type pharmaceutical invention, should deserve &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/balancing-ipr-with-public-health-interest-brickbats-power-play-and-bouquets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost Keeps Haunting: NCD Dogs Cancer in &#8216;Compulsory License&#8217; Debate of India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November 2012, as a part of the ‘Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab’ for the treatment of breast cancer, a citizens’ collective, reportedly sent an ‘Open Letter’ signed by around 200 cancer survivors, women’s groups, human rights and health rights campaigns &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-ghost-keeps-haunting-ncd-dogs-cancer-in-compulsory-license-debate-of-india/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Patent office (IPO) asks for details of ‘working of patents’ in India – does it herald the beginning of a new chapter in the IPR regime of the country or it could trigger another raging debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Public Notice dated 24/12/2009 issued by the Controller General of Patents, Design &#38; Trade Marks, directing all Patentees and Licensees to furnish information in Form No.27 on &#8216;Working of Patents&#8217; as prescribed under Section 146 of the Patents Act &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/indian-patent-office-ipo-asks-for-details-of-working-of-patents-in-india-does-it-herald-the-beginning-of-a-new-chapter-in-the-ipr-regime-of-the-country-or-it-could-trigge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The relevance of the Indian version of the Bayh-Dole Act – the country needs all stakeholders’ open debate on the proposed bill.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bayh-Dole Act is an American legislation, which was originally sponsored by two US senators named Birch Bayh and Bob Dole. This Act deals with Intellectual Property (IP) arising out of US government funding. Bayh-Dole Act is also known as &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-relevance-of-the-indian-version-of-the-bayh-dole-act-the-country-needs-all-stakeholders-open-debate-on-the-proposed-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The stormy debate on wrongful grant of pharma product patents – a countdown of the news events, for a quick perspective.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To give a quick perspective to this debate, I reckon, a countdown of five reported news events on the subject will be helpful. I start from February, 2009 and gradually go one year back, to February, 2008, to capture the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-stormy-debate-on-wrongful-grant-of-pharma-product-patents-a-countdown-of-the-news-events-for-a-quick-perspective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The heated debate on WHO IMPACT definition of Counterfeit Drugs is now on a ‘pause’ – A time to evaluate the reasons for supporting and opposing it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organisation (WHO), in December 2008, proposed the following new definition, as prepared by the International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT):“A medical product is counterfeit when there is a false representation in relation to its identity and/or source. &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-heated-debate-on-who-impact-definition-of-counterfeit-drugs-is-now-on-a-pause-a-time-to-evaluate-the-reasons-for-supporting-and-opposing-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Biosimilar Drugs -A raging scientific debate with mounting global commercial interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 11, 2008, Reuters reported that two days after Merck &#38; Co. announced a major push into generic versions of biotechnology medicines, Eli Lilly &#38; Co. signaled similar aspirations. This report raised many eyebrows in the global pharmaceutical industry, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/biosimilar-drugs-a-raging-scientific-debate-with-mounting-global-commercial-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On ‘Patent Linkage’ – a rational argument on an emotive debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WTO TRIPS Article 28.1a says that the member countries agree to ensure exclusive rights to patent holder for a specific time period. In case of India, like most other countries, this time period is for 20 years.During this period the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/on-patent-linkage-a-rational-argument-on-an-emotive-debate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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