Pfizer’s Selzentry HIV Drug Faces India Opposition As Too Expensive (India)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Patient groups and two organizations are challenging the patent India gave to Pfizer for its Selzentry (maraviroc), one of a new class of oral AIDS drugs intended as second-line treatments. Medicines Sans frontiers and a Mumbai lawyer group are poring over the patent grant to see if it was justified, with an eye to questions raised about the drug by Europe's patent office. Challengers have a year from last June to mount an official challenge to granting a patent right. The U.S. FDA approved the drug in August. (Click here for more