Top Law News Patent waiver: US goes online to placate India August 1, 2012 / August 1, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Though India had granted its first ever “compulsory licence”, a patent waiver, to make a cancer drug more accessible, an official of the Barack Obama administration condemned it in a congressional hearing as a violation of “international standards”. What has however gone unnoticed is that the deputy director of the US patent and trademark office […] Read more ยป Barack Obama Barack Obama administration Bayer's patented cancer drug Nexavar cancer drug cancer drug Nexavar Patent Patent waiver TRIPS TRIPS provision for compulsory licence US patent and trademark office USPTO