Sentence examples for patent extensions from inspiring English sources

Drug companies have also fought hard to win patent extensions.

It was a disappointing finding, but patent extensions are granted even when studies fail.

By one unofficial estimate, these three patent extensions will ultimately translate into additional Claritin revenues totaling about $13 billion.

At the same time, the law rewarded the brand companies by giving them patent extensions of up to five years.

The Patent Office, which granted interim patent extensions during the lawsuit, is working on the final extension.

Applications for patent extensions must be made within 60 days of a drug's approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

It applied for the patent extension on Feb. 14, 2001.

The patent office did honor Judge Hilton's order to grant an interim patent extension while it deliberated.

It said Medicines had waited until the last minute to file the fairly simple patent extension application.

A company that invents a treatment for a neglected disease, for example, could be given a patent extension on one of its lucrative drugs.

Last year, Claritin's manufacturer, the Schering-Plough Corporation, hired Mr. Knight to help develop a lobbying campaign for the patent extension, among other issues.