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Podcast: businessline's State of the Economy Podcast
Episode: India’s free trade agreement raises questions about patent oppositions
Description: In this episode of the State of the Economy podcast, businessline’s Jyothi Datta talks to Biswajit Dhar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Retd) and Distinguished Professor Council for Social Development to reflect on two decades of India’s product patent regime and its profound impact on the pharmaceutical landscape and public health.  The conversation begins Dhar explaining how the 1970 Patents Act focused on process patents, fostering a thriving generic pharmaceutical industry and making India a global supplier of affordable medicines by the 1980s. However, the 2005 shift to product patents under WTO’s TRIPS agreement reversed this trajectory, reintrod...