IGBA Picks Apart Innovator Patent Gaming Systems In A New Report

The Report Illustrates Strategies Delaying Or Blocking Off-Patent Competition

The IGBA has introduced its first global intellectual property and competition report, addressing the urgent need to reform current regulations. But, in a bid to increase access to medicines across the world, did it stop short at just IP and patents?

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The International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association has released a first-of-its-kind report, delving deep into the nooks and crannies of patent abuse strategies, backed with use cases to illustrate them.

Titled ‘Gaming the system: An overview of originator companies’ evergreening strategies used to hinder access to generic and biosimilar products,” the lengthy 123-page report highlights the different ways originators try...

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