What are Counterfeit Drugs?

Drugs that are illegally imported to a country are termed as counterfeit drugs. These drugs are both dangerous and may potentially cause financial damages to the patent holder.

What are Gray Market Drugs?

Drugs that are manufactured by the patent holder and exported to foreign market, and these drugs when re-sold into the US, they are referred to as Gray Market Drugs. These drugs are not counterfeit drugs.

Read it from site http://www.lventre.com/druginfr.html, written by Louis Ventre, Jr. The site is contentful and more interesting legal information is available in the site.

Defending an Infringement case

I read an interesting article from a website “PatentandProperty” written by Kenneth B. Herman and Christopher J. Harnett.

The article provides a background on

• the infringement case,
• how to deal with the infringement case,
• applicable rules,
• safety measures and
• success formulae with live example

For details, visit http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/mdd/v04/i07/html/07patents.html