Sentence examples for patent extended from inspiring English sources

Altace was bringing in under $90 million in revenues; Hoechst had stopped promoting it, but the drug's patent extended until 2008.

Altace was bringing in under $90 million in revenues, and Hoechst had stopped promoting it, yet the drug's patent extended until 2008.

But time is working against him: No Lemelson patent extends beyond 2011.

Pfizer's US patent extends until 2020, but in late 2017 the company started selling its cheaper alternative in America, too.

The patents extend to G.M. subsidiaries, including Opel.

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In the kidney-treatment market Amgen's patents may succeed in fending off a competing anemia drug from the Swiss giant Roche, at least in the U.S., where the patents extend to 2012.

Dr. Reddy's, which is based in Hyderabad, will not sell a generic version of the Novartis medicine until after the patent expires in December 2006 and perhaps not for another six months if the patent is extended, Novartis said.

Analysts estimate that the company could reap an additional $1 billion in sales for every six months the patent is extended.

In 2008, it estimated that if the patent were extended, hospitals would spend $2 billion extra on the drug from 2011 to 2018.

After Watt's patent was extended by an act of Parliament, he and Boulton in 1775 began a partnership that lasted 25 years.