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French charity attacks Gilead patent for hepatitis drug

2015-02-10 12:23:32| Biotech - Topix.net

French charity Medecins du Monde on Tuesday said it was contesting a European patent awarded to a hepatitis drug made by US firm Gilead Sciences, arguing the treatment was too costly. The organisation-"Doctors of the World"-said it had filed a "brief in opposition" with the European Patent Office , the Munich-based agency that awards patents covering 40 European countries.

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