India grants Pfizer patent for pneumonia vaccine !
India has granted US pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. a patent for its pneumonia vaccine Prevnar 13, in spite of opposition from the health group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The non-profit group had filed a “patent opposition” to prevent Pfizer from getting a patent on its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV 13). While the approval comes almost [...]
