On Monday, India's Supreme court rejected the firm's appeal to get patent protection for the drug.
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Though sugar-free gum ended up being adopted quickly by larger players because its inventors did not get secure patent position, Pettman adds that Revolymer has worldwide patents for Rev7.
In the U.S., we pay for drugs while there is a patent, and then they get super-cheap.
The two companies are engaged in a worldwide patent struggle, each trying to get the other company's products banned for sale in various regions.
Before you get too excited, lets remember two things: one, companies file patent applications for things all the time that never see the light of day.
They spend brief periods of time innovating, and then milk a technology, brand, patent, or some combination therein for as long as they can get away with it (or in Moto's case, way longer).
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Rights related to intellectual property such as patents and copyrights are particularly important because IP is both a reward for innovation (if I invent a better mousetrap I get to patent it) and an input to it (most new ideas are recombinations of existing ones).
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Ranbaxy, a Japanese-owned drugmaker, struggled to get regulators' approval for its generic version of Lipitor, and only won it on the day the patent expired.
In any case, that's about all we can glean from the patent application, but feel free to peek for yourselves if you feel like letting your imaginations get ahead of you.
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With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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