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Patent|Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry


Frequently Asked Questions on the Patent Term Restoration Program

The term of a patent which claims a human drug product, a method of using the product or a method of manufacturing the product will be extended ...

Pharmaceutical Patent Term Extension: An Overview - Alacrita

This 14-year period is measured from the date the drug product received regulatory approval up to the date of patent expiration (with term extension). Any term ...

How Big Pharma Rigged the Patent System - The American Prospect

By making small changes to dosages, formulation, method of administration, and so forth, drug companies can then apply for a new patent or a ...

The Implications of Patent-Term Extension for Pharmaceuticals

Nor will it stem the trend of domes- tic companies conducting pharmaceutical R&D overseas. To the extent that patent-term extension dem- onstrates Government ...

Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry (August 1981)

The competition may be from other patented drugs,. Page 12. 6 ○ patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry from nondrug therapies, or from ...

Patent Term Extensions & Exclusivity Amid Blockbuster Drug Patent ...

Many of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies will see some of their best-selling drugs face generic or biosimilar competition for the first time having ...

Patent Term Extension - Sterne Kessler

... manufacturing the product. Such products include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, food additives, color additives and medical devices ...

Introduction to Patent Term Extensions (PTE) - Fish & Richardson

However, because drugs and devices must undergo a lengthy review process at the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) prior to commercial use or ...

Patent term extensions and commercialization lags in the ...

Extending patent terms is an important policy instrument for the government to intervene in pharmaceutical R&D. In 1984, the U.S. Congress passed the Drug Price ...

Patent Term Extensions and the Last Man Standing

The Hatch-Waxman Act allows drug companies to request a single extension to their patent, limited to a particular length. Nevertheless, drug companies continue ...

data on SPCs and other term extensions for pharmaceutical patents

Patent term extensions for drug patents were first introduced in the U.S. in 1984, with South Korea following suit in 1987 and Japan in 1988. The EU ...

2750-Patent Term Extension for Delays at other Agencies under 35 ...

The right to a patent term extension based upon premarket regulatory review is the result of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, ...

$52.6 Billion: Extra Cost to Consumers of Add-On Drug Patents

Pharmaceutical companies gain an average three years in monopoly protections on branded drugs by filing multiple secondary patents.

How Patent Extensions Keep Some Drug Costs High

Drug patents allow companies to recoup the costs of inventing a drug and reap rewards for innovation. For an entirely new drug, a U.S. patent ...

Patent term extension strategies in the pharmaceutical industry

Therefore, pharmaceutical companies use a variety of strategies to increase market exclusivity of their products. Some of the strategies discussed in this paper ...

Patent Term Extension for Biologics - Morrison Foerster

Patent term extension (PTE) provides additional patent term for patents related to US pharmaceutical products to compensate for the effective loss of patent ...

Frequently Asked Questions on Patents and Exclusivity - FDA

Patents can be issued or expire at any time regardless of the drug's approval status. Exclusivity attaches upon approval of a drug product if ...

Strategies forExtending theLifeofPatents

Table 2 shows three examples of revenue losses fol- lowing patent expiration. Pharmaceutical companies can employ a number of strategies to max- imize patent ...

Patent Term Extensions for Pharmaceutical Products (MR144e)

Innovative companies require the guaranteed period of market exclusivity afforded by patents in order to sustain drug prices and thereby recoup research and ...

Recommendations for Statutory Reform of the Patent Term ...

A significant driver of this trend has been the patent term extension (PTE) provision of the Hatch-. Waxman Act, 35 U.S.C. § 156, which allows drug companies to ...