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4 November 2015Big Pharma

WTO 'expected to announce' 17-year drug patent waiver for LDCs

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is expected to announce a 17-year extension to an agreement that exempts the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) from a duty to grant patents covering pharmaceutical drugs, an activist group has claimed.

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