It is likely that the patent rules (amendment) 2024 increase the possibility of litigation and may affect the health security of the Global South, according to experts.
Address a round table on the nuances of the patent rules (amendment) 2024 organized by the Training Academy of India Drug Control Officers (AIDCOC) Here on Saturday, the general director of UDAYA BHASKAR, the AIDCOC training academy and the Formermis de Formermos.
In addition, he said that the changes would significantly undermine India’s ability to guarantee access to affordable medications.
Dr. Ranga Reddy Burri, president of the Indian Infection Control Academy, said that the evolutionary patent panorama had long -range implications for public health and access to medicines. The recent amendments to the rules of Indian patents could significantly affect global health security, partly for the global south, he added.
The group of countries located in the southern hemisphere is generally called South of the South and are considered less developed or developed than those of the Global North. They include Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Israel, Japan and South Korea) and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).
“As the world continues to stagger from the sequels of COVID-19, which exhibited deep fractures in health capital notes only in India and other counters from the Netherlands and media also in the Northwest Global Thresthe Legick Orperghous’.
“Recent changes in the act that potentially delaying generic competence or limiting the opposition to unfair patents could exacerbate existing health inequalities. Indian patients are already loaded by high health expenses outside the end of domain and medals and any special devices under the influence of private capital and increased private health costs, will affect the middle classes and not pretended,” they said in curri.
Other experts from the industry and regulatory fraternity, Who Did not want to be named, said as per the Amendments of the patent (Amendment) Rules, 2024, The Controller General of Patents Can decides WHO A-man to be against a-man to have Been a counterary a-man to have Been to have Been a counterary to Prescon to Preschon’s Toed to be a to be to be previously a patent that should be a whole that was dedicated. Opposition.
“After the amendments and the empowerment of the controller, there is the possibility of a greater litigation if one prefers to challenge the decision of the controller on the prior opposition to the concession in a court of justice,” said Roshan John, regional advisor, Asia and Oceania, MSF. Although there was no rate to archive an opposition prior to the relationship, the financial barriers were now placed in their place with the receipts of the receipts from RS 4000 to RS.
Experts in the round table also said that amendments can potentially delay the mandatory license process in approximately a period of five years.
Posted on April 19, 2025