This article aimed to comment the decision of the High Court of Madras, India, on matter involving the patent for Glivec, manu-factured by Novartis. It is about a brief review of the Case Novartis AG versus Union of India, in which will be explained some issues that have been considered by the Court, for example, the Indian legislative changes, the Doha Declaration and the TRIPS Agreement. Besides, some considerations were made about the allegations by Novartis in defense of the importance of the patent, the legal adaptation for the purpose of combating the called evergreening mechanism, as well as the respect of a relevant fundamental right – the right to health – used as justification to the Court’s decision. The presented paper, therefor...