# Foreign drug import is now legal: discussion thread

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093
**Category:** Insurance
**Tags:** insulin, canada
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093 "2017-05-30T16:06:45Z")
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#### Post date: [May 31, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093/25 "2017-05-31T16:18:28Z")

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Evidently this had been on the radar concerning pharma for quite a while, according to ipwatch in this 2015 story

> **[The Lexmark Litigation: Why Does Big Pharma Care So Much About Ink Cartridges?...](https://www.ip-watch.org/2015/09/17/the-lexmark-litigation-why-does-big-pharma-care-so-much-about-ink-cartridges/)**
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> The Federal Circuit will soon hear Lexmark v. Impression Products, a case about ink cartridges. Impression, a foreign buyer, refills spent Lexmark cartridges and resells them in the United States. Impression claims that Lexmark, having sold the...

It’s genesis was the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, in which S.A. instituted a policy of patent exhaustion in order to make anti aids medicine more affordable for their population. Pharma fought this tooth and nail, but did not prevail.

How there is not more rx related coverage of this story is truly mystifying.

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