NEW DELHI, MARCH 3: Fourteen months after the product patent regime came into force, the Indian Patents Office has granted its first ever product patent recognised in India, to Swiss pharma major F. Hoffmann La-Roche (Roche).
The patent has gone to Pegasys, Roche’s therapy for Hepatitis-C, for twenty years starting May 15, 1997. Hepatitis-C afflicts 170 million people worldwide, some 7 per cent of whom are in India.
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