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Is Patent “Evergreening” Restricting Access to Medicine/Device Combination Products?

BACKGROUND: Not all new drug products are truly new. Some are the result of marginal innovation and incremental patenting of existing products, but in such a way that confers no major therapeutic improvement. This phenomenon, pejoratively known as “evergreening”, can allow manufacturers to preserve...

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Autores principales: Beall, Reed F., Nickerson, Jason W., Kaplan, Warren A., Attaran, Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26910128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148939