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...underlines the increasingly urgent need for the development of an effective HIV vaccine, which has so far eluded researchers. He also says that because the study provides evidence showing that drug resistance will continue to rise in developing countries, it will likely increase pressure on pharmaceutical companies to join "patent pools" for their more expensive second- and third-generation antiretroviral drugs. In such an arrangement, an umbrella organization like UNITAID manages a pool of patents that allows generic producers to make second- and third-generation drugs at an affordable price for developing countries. The UNITAID board, backed by Britain, France...
...Drugs has proposed that the University include students, public health experts, physicians, and patients in the process of deciding whether to patent medicines in other countries...
...Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision sometime in the spring of 2010. Till then, the machine-or-transformation test is the law of the land and the patent office is rejecting applications based on the test...
...call them Bilski rejections," says Keith McWha, a New York City-based patent attorney...
Writing in their judgment, the Justices might call for greater scrutiny of the real-world practical applications of new patents by patent examiners and judges, says Mandel...