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The Issue with Reissue: PTE Edition

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Even though the PTE provisions established in the Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act are forty-plus years old, courts are still grappling with questions about how to best implement the Patent Term Extension. The Court thus explained that interpreting the patent in 35 U.S.C.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a new CVS chief, obesity meds cutting overdoses, and more

STAT

Or you could hide indoors with a good book. drug prices and repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving something of a vacuum in his health policy agenda. One drug prices to a basket of payments made by similarly wealthy countries, but has retreated from that approach. Well, whatever you do, have a grand time.