In this photo illustration, boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Nothing drives down a drug’s price like competition.

Recognizing the value of the discovery and validation of new pharmaceutical targets would be a major step forward for pharmaceutical policy. Patent law has a significant influence on drug ...

What’s noteworthy is that in this Congress the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance their drug patent reform plans ...

This approach to nonexclusive licenses focusing on access has successfully demonstrated its use for multiple drugs and diseases. The Medicines Patent Pool, for example, has applied similar ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court shot down the patent case of a pharmaceutical company behind drugs that purport to lower bad cholesterol. Amgen initiated the ...

Drug companies now appear poised to benefit from the artificial intelligence revolution to solidify their patent positions even further. New computational methods are being employed to not only ...

A US district court has said that a key patent held by Astellas on its Myrbetriq drug for urinary incontinence is invalid, in a setback to its efforts to defend the blockbuster therapy from ...

But before generics can hit the market, a drug’s patent must first expire. In the United States, drug patents last for 20 years from the date a patent application is filed, giving the ...