Industry Groups Urge Lawmakers To Address Trade Policies With India's Regulators.

Reuters (3/14, Palmer) reports executives from agricultural, pharmaceutical and technology industries on Wednesday, called for the US government to step up pressure on India to revise its trade and intellectual property policies, which the industry reps claim are stifling US exports and violating its patent rights. In testimony before the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee, Pfizer's Chief Intellectual Property Counsel Roy Waldron said the protectionist policy India has developed to enable its generic drug makers to thrive is hurting US employment growth. He cited several examples, such as India's revocation of the patent Pfizer held on the cancer treatment Sutent (sunitinib malate), emphasizing the country's tendency to dissolve drug patents by issuing compulsory licenses, which are supposed to be awarded only in certain situations. Waldron concluded his testimony by urging Federal lawmakers to address those issues actively, though direct talks with Indian regulators and to use available policy standards to compel India to honor intellectual property rights.

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