Compulsory Licenses are a provision in international patent norms, including the WTO's TRIPS agreement, under which a govt. permits someone else to manufacture the patented product without the consent of the patent owner; usually to lower the prices of life saving drugs and increase access to them.
# Novartis's drug Glivec was denied patent protection by the supreme court.
# India granted a compulsory license to Bayer's drug Nexavar, which treats kidney and liver cancer.
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