Generic Daklinza Deal Sets Precedent In HCV Drug Licensing
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The licensing agreement announced on Nov. 23 by the Medicines Patent Pool and Bristol-Myers Squibb, under which generics firms will be able to manufacture their own versions of the firm's hepatitis C drug daclatasvir for sale in more than a hundred lower-income countries, breaks new ground in several different ways.
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