Science|Business
Policy Analysis: IP
Published: 08 December 2005
Intellectual Property: Last chance for Europe's biotech pioneers

nuala moran, Senior editor, ScienceBusiness

With the US in regulatory limbo, Europe is winning the race to be the first regulated drugs market to approve generic copies of biotech drugs - despite the protests of the biotech pioneers who created them.

Erythropoietin is a hot candidate biogenerics companies (picture courtesy Flamel Technologies)

With the US in regulatory limbo, Europe is winning the race to be the first regulated drugs market to approve generic copies of biotech drugs - despite the protests of the biotech pioneers who created them.

The pioneers of the biotech industry get a last chance to defend their products against imitators at a meeting in Paris today and...

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Related subjects: Biosimilars, Biotechnology, Intellectual property, Technology Transfer

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