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Home » HHS URGED TO APPROVE SOME GENERIC DRUGS STILL ON PATENT
HHS URGED TO APPROVE SOME GENERIC DRUGS STILL ON PATENT
February 10, 2004
A consumer activist group is urging HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to use a little-known federal law on the commercialization of government funded inventions to grant generic drugmakers patent licenses to make versions of Pfizer’s glaucoma drug Xalatan (latanoprost) and Abbott’s AIDS treatment Norvir (ritonavir).