The EU has published an action plan that is intended to upgrade the bloc’s intellectual property framework while ensuring that goods such as medicines and vaccines are made as widely available as possible. The initiative is part of wide-ranging plans to support member states’ recovery from the pandemic crisis and help ensure the EU’s resilience to future health threats.

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Teva received a “package of commercial side-deals” for agreeing to halt generic competition to Cephalon’s Provigil (modafinil) throughout the EU, which it “would not have achieved without committing to staying out of the market,” according to findings by the European Commission.