Many people think that India's manufacturing of generic drugs is the acquiescence of western countries, but this is actually wrong. Every drug has a patent period, after which any country can copy it. In addition, the international community also has "compulsory licensing rules for pharmaceutical patents". This means that when a country has a public health crisis, it may get the right to produce drugs. There are loopholes here.
Generally speaking, every new drug research and development has a patent application. Indian medicines have patent laws, which can be traced back to the British colonial period. But because India was a colony at that time, Indians bought ordinary medicines at high prices. It was not until 1947 that India finally became independent and began to amend the patent law. During the ten years from 1949 to 1959, people from all walks of life in India spent a lot of energy, financial resources and material resources on preliminary research. It was not until 1970 that the new Indian patent law was published. Later, India promulgated the patent law, allowing Indian pharmaceutical companies to copy and produce all drugs without obtaining patents from western countries. It doesn't matter whether India is allowed to produce generic drugs. Indian pharmaceutical companies only need to copy them. They only have manufacturing costs, not research and development costs. In other words, India's patent law can only protect pharmaceutical technology, but not pharmaceutical ingredients.
At first, many countries with drug patents in the world expressed anger at India's behavior and even threatened to impose sanctions on it. But India always deceives these countries and the international community on the grounds that the country is weak and the people are poor, and then continues to engage in the pharmaceutical industry. After all, he didn't join the WTO.
Of course, with the rise of Indian generic drugs, multinational pharmaceutical companies will naturally not allow more Indian generic drugs to go public. Otherwise, it will just sit still. The WTO also knows that it must also safeguard the survival rights of multinational companies, so that generic drugs have a future. Therefore, countries that joined after India cannot enjoy the same patent treatment as India, and the WTO has begun to implement patent protection.