They want expensive patented medicines to work.

Inside were shaving gear, the usual litter of patented medicines, several old toothbrushes, and some out-dated Tetracycline antibiotics.

They reviewed large number of patients as per the principles of traditional system of Unani medicines and prescribed their own patented medicine.

Chief among the issues in deadlock is one that was not even on the official agenda for the Doha round: access to patented medicines for poor countries.

The organization regulates trade-related intellectual property rights, including those covering patented medicines.

Generic drugs use the same active ingredient, in the same quantity, as the original patented medicines for which they are designed to be substituted.

Pharmaceutical companies say they need profits on patented medicines to pay for research into new drugs.

This act would allow parallel importing and would authorise the genetic production of patented medicines for the government's non-profit, non-commercial use.

In 2006, Novartis launched a court case against India seeking to prohibit the country from developing generic drugs based on patented medicines.

A. With patented medicines, after a certain life span and patent expiry, there is a cliff and the fall is long and deep.