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Patent life span was calculated using the announcement date of related patents.
"Life cycle management" is industry jargon for maximizing the length of a brand's patent life.
"I realized they want to patent life, and life is not an invention," she said.
It is also trying to shift patients to Tasigna, which has a longer patent life.
Such improved versions are often a good way of extending a drug's patent life.
While successful in doing that, Hatch-Waxman also lengthened the patent life for brand-name drugs.
In the 1990s, Congress enacted other laws that further increased the patent life of brand-name drugs.
Since 1996, there have been at least a half dozen attempts to extend Claritin's patent life even more.
They say the companies that have most aggressively pursued the tactic tend to be those with drugs that are nearing the end of their patent life.
But if an antibiotic is useful against only one type of bacterium, relatively few people need it during its patent life.
Twenty years ago, drugs that could safely be sold directly to patients typically moved off the prescription model as their patent life ended.
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