Re: Dominant Patents

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

James Love wrote:

>     The new invention was first discovered in 1991, only six years after the
> first patent was issued (in 1985) for the drug.

    Actually, the first patent have been been issued in 1987 rather than 1985.
As is often the case for profitable biotech inventions, there now exist a large
number of neighboring patents, many owned by the company marketing the drug,
which tend to extend and broaden the claims.

   jamie

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