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New Patents Database To Help Countries Improve Medicines Procurement

 
• By Ian Schofield

The international drug industry group, IFPMA, the World Intellectual Property Organization and 20 big pharmas have launched Pat-INFORMED, a new patent database that can be used by governments to improve their medicines procurement programs. The R&D-based industry says it clearly links public patent information to registered medicines in a new, user-friendly online gateway. However, the European generics industry body Medicines For Europe says the move amounts to "patent linkage" and will have anti-competitive effects for generics firms. 

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The Pat-INFORMED initiative is meant to help drug procurement agencies around the world • Source: Shutterstock

A new global tool has been launched to help procurement agencies more easily assess patent status and thereby improve the way they purchase medicines, for example by allowing them to quickly ascertain whether they can lawfully obtain a generic medicine without infringing a patent.

The open-access Patent Information Initiative for Medicines (Pat-INFORMED) contains data on more than 14,000 individual patents, 600 patent families and more than 160 international non-proprietary names, covering a wide range of medical conditions

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