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Drop in pay-for-delay good for access to medicines in Europe

8 July 2011 – The European Commission revealed a fall in problematic medicines patent settlements. The latest results from DG Competition’s second monitoring exercise show that damaging ‘pay-for-delay’ settlements fell from an average of 22% of all patent settlements (2000 and 2008) to just 3% in 2010. This is good news for access to medicines…Continue reading HAI Europe statement