Sentence examples for exclusive patent from inspiring English sources

Lilly's exclusive patent on Prozac expires in December 2003.

Bristol-Myers sold $1.5 billion of Taxol last year, but its exclusive patent on the medication has expired.

"Granting exclusive patent rights amounts to stealing economic options of daily survival from the developing world," Ms. Shiva said.

But these drugs are under exclusive patent protection, are expensive and thus out of reach of these people.

[C5.] Prozac Ages, Still Causing a Furor As Prozac edges into adolescence and Eli Lilly's exclusive patent nears expiration, Prozac is causing a stir.

So, perhaps predictably, as the drug edges into adolescence and Lilly's exclusive patent on the medication nears expiration, Prozac is once more causing a stir.

Then the World Trade Organization's (WTO) agreement on Trade-Related Aspecameof intollectual Property Rights (TRIPS) came into force, effectively handing Big Pharma exclusive patents in all markets as of 2005.

If the license is exclusive, the patent owner will no longer have any rights to commercially exploit the patented invention.

Bayer's exclusive United States patent rights to Cipro last until late 2003.

Its status as the sole commercial provider of BRCA testing in the United States is a consequence of its exclusive US patent rights.

The most famous of these tests involve BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes with variants linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers.Defenders of such exclusive gene patents remain unbowed by criticism.