Taking advantage of a broken patent system, Big Pharma is making minor tweaks to medications just to keep affordable generics off the market, a new report suggests. They’ve made billions of dollars in the process.

Taking advantage of a broken patent system, Big Pharma is making minor tweaks to medications just to keep affordable generics off the market, a new report suggests. They’ve made billions of dollars in the process.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    This isn’t new. All they need to do is claim a new use/structure for their product and bam, patent extension. For instance: “this drug works for anxiety.” Cool, 7 years patent. At the end of those 7 years “oh wait it also works for major depression in kids when we add a little chemical structure thing here” and bam, patent extension. Complete bastards.