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Panorama of the pharmaceutical patenting and sanitary registration of ARVs drugs in Brazil: implications to access and to health industrial complex. Pedro Villardi Session: The Future of Affordable ART: Trends in Patents and Price WDC - July 2012.
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Panorama of the pharmaceutical patenting and sanitary registration of ARVs drugs in Brazil: implications to access and to health industrial complex Pedro Villardi Session:The Future of Affordable ART: Trends in Patents and Price WDC - July 2012
Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association - ABIA • Created in 1986 – 25-year old NGO • Objectives • Mobilize civil society • Monitor public policies in HIV and Health, education, prevention, sexuality and human rights
Working Group on Intellectual Property - GTPI • Created in 2003 • Collective made of NGOs, unions, researchers and social movements. ABIA is its secretariat. Mission: monitor and mitigate the impacts of the IP system on public health policies and on access to medicines in Brazil and others developing countries
Agenda • Introduction • Justification • Objective • Methodology • Patents search • Sanitary registration search • Results • Discussion • Policy Recommendations
Agenda • Introduction • Justification • Objective • Methodology • Patents search • Sanitary registration search • Results • Discussion • Policy Recommendations
Justification • No public database with compilation ARVs registered in Brazil. • Difficulty in finding patents and patents application from the INN • Several patents covering one medicine
Objectives • To develop a search methodology for patents and patents applications in Brazil • To build a panorama of the ARVs patents status • To find the sanitary registration status of the selected ARVs • Also build a panorama of the sanitary registration • To analyze whether the patent applications impede the entrance of generic competitors • To develop policy recommendations from the data found
Agenda • Introduction • Justification • Objective • Methodology • Patents search • Sanitary registration search • Results • Discussion • Policy Recommendations
Methodology • Building the ARVs list • Interview with specialists • Juan Carlos Raxach • Eloan Pinheiro • Brazilian National Therapeutic Guidelines • OMS treatment guidelines
Methodology I – Patent Search • Search was strictly conducted in public databases • Search methodology was designed to applied in Brazil • Can be adapted to other countries without Linkage
Methodology I – Patent Search (2) • Starting at the Orange Book website • Search by INN • Collect all the American patents granted for each ARV • Limitations • Process patents not listed • Only granted patents listed • Two ways developed to search the Brazilian patents • By the American patent number • By the Priority number
By the American patent number • Find in esp@cenet, trough the “Number search”, the INPADOC patent family and • Look for the Brazilian application • Go to the Brazilian patent office (INPI) website and find the number, through simple search
By the priority number • To find the original patent document in USPTO • To survey the priority numbers of the American patents (Foreing Application Data ou Appl. No.) • To search onthe INPI “Advanced Search”
Patent Search Summary INPADOCFamily INPADOCFamily esp@cenet BRXXXXXXX American Patent INPI search Orange Book American Patent PIXXXXXXX-X Priority Number INPI website – Advanced Search
Other sources • I-mak report • Combinations • Patent pool database • To check the results found
Methodology – Sanitary Registration Search • ANVISA search database • Only granted and not granted applications published
Agenda • Introduction • Justification • Objective • Methodology • Patents search • Sanitary registration search • Results • Discussion • Policy Recommendations
Results • 98 patents for 30 drugs • 8 combinations with 21 patents or patent applications • 22 drugs with 77 patents or patent applications • Distribution by status
Results II – sanitary registration • 11 drugs with more than one sanitary registration • ABC, ddI, EFV, d4T, IDV, 3TC, NPV, RTV, SQV, TDF, AZT+3TC • 11 drugs with only one sanitary registration • ATV, DRV, T20, Etravirine, FPV, MVC, Raltegravir, Tipranavir, ABC+3TC, ABC+AZT+3TC, Lop/r • No generic competition! • 8 Drugs without sanitary registration • EVG, FTC, Rilpivirine, FTC+3TC, FTC+TDF, EFV+FTC+TDF, DRV+RTV+TDF
Policy Recommendations • Integration of development policies of national pharmaceutical-chemical industry: widespread use of the Bolar Exception and high standards of examination of the patent applications • Strengthen Pre and post grant opposition
Policy Recommendations (2) 3. Problems regarding INPI website a. expiry of session b. no digitalization of patents and patent applications c. Claims of granted patents are no published 4. Possibility to overcome the opacity of the patent system in Brazil
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