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concept of differential pricing has also been invoked under which the petitioner had introduced a Patients Assistance Programme (PAP) which would enable poorer patients to obtain the patented drug at cheaper prices as against the richer class of patients who would obtain the patented drug at the normal price which would be reasonable from the perspective of the richer class of patients. This differential pricing enabled the economically weaker patients to pay for three days medicines and obtain 27 days of medicines free of costs from the petitioner. The above aspect of differential pricing has not been considered by the authorities under the Act thus leading to an arbitrary conclusion that the patented drug was not available to the parties at reasonable affordable price.