US Patent Reform Would Raise Drug Costs

By weakening ways to challenge drug patent thickets, proposed legislation to reform US patent law would extend brand monopolies and increase spending on medicines, the Association for Accessible Medicines is warning.

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Proposed patent-reform legislation in the US would raise drug costs by undermining inter partes reviews that are used to invalidate weak patents • Source: Shutterstock

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