Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets
Proposed reforms from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Congress could work in tandem to prevent patent thickets by targeting strategies that impede market entry of generic and biosimilar drugs.
Authors
- Bernard Chao
- S. Sean Tu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0391-8186)
- Aaron Seth Kesselheim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-2666)
- Ryan Whalen
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp2412999
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.26