Guardian
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Pharmaceutical companies that invent a new medicine are entitled to a patent on it in the US , UK and Europe lasting up to 20 years .
Once the patent has expired, generics companies can copy the drug, competing to sell it at affordable prices.
India only began to recognise drug patents after joining the World Trade Organization in 1995 .
A quarter of NHS medicines are cheap generics made in India .
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