Drug maker Wockhardt today said it has been chosen as the pharmaceutical company for the maximum number of patent filings and grants from India.

Wockhardt has been granted 70 patents, 15 from the Indian Patent office and 55 from the American and European Patent offices, the drug maker said in a statement.

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"This award is a recognition of Wockhardt's robust, resilient and uncompromising intellectual pursuit in discovering new ways and methods of medical innovation," the company's Chairman Habil Khorakiwala said.

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