Novartis Suffers Setback As Indian Patent Appeals Board Strikes Down Glivec Patent
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
MUMBAI - Hopes for Novartis to obtain a product patent for its chronic myeloid leukemia drug Gleevec (imatinib) were dashed after India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board ruled that Novartis' patent application covering the medicine's beta-crystalline version is not patentable because it failed to satisfy the requirements under Section 3(d) of the India Patents Act