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Article

23 Oct 2001

Author:
Robert Fife, National Post [Canada]

Rock [Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock] backs down in drug dispute: Reaches deal with Bayer: Apotex anthrax medication to be put in 'deep freeze'

...a more senior official said Mr. Rock had little choice but to come to terms with Bayer because his department had breached the drug giant's legal patent, potentially threatening the $1-billion a year the pharmaceutical industry invests in Canada. The law allows the government to suspend patents in an emergency, but there are procedures that must be followed, which were not in this case.