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Contingencies and commitments (Sandoz ENBREL Patent Litigation) (Details) - ENBREL (etanercept) [Member]	Feb. 26, 2016 patent affiliate
Gain Contingencies [Line Items]
Gain contingency, number of affiliates | affiliate	2
Number of patents allegedly infringed | patent	5

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Gain Contingency, Number of Affiliates

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of entity's patents that another entity has allegedly infringed.

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