But beyond the legal research costs, there are the court and settlement costs.
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The company is handing out a manual explaining research costs, Medicare programs and the "risks" of purchasing medicine from other countries.
Research costs are dropping, but doctors will need better-quality data and analysis.
In every other case he's studied, disruption has wrung two-thirds of the overhead primarily administrative, marketing and research costs out of the business.
Under pressure to reduce research costs and win fast-track approvals, drug companies do 43% of their clinical trials abroad, up from 14% ten years ago.
But while ICN International may be getting back factories seized by Yugoslavia's government in 1998 during Slobodan Milosevic's rule, Ribapharm's research costs are expected to balloon.
"The simple fact is that Europe, Canada and Japan are not paying their fair share of the research costs, " McKinnell told reporters at an informal lunch April 11 here.
And like commercial aviation, Wincer predicts that the price of space travel will go down over time, as the efficiencies improve and research costs are spread over more passengers.
First, Elan's (nyse: ELN - news - people ) accounting was called into question as forbes and others noticed that Elan seemed to be hiding some research costs as investments in outside companies.
Clinical research also costs more because of the need to get HIPAA waivers to look at charts to collect data for studies.
Wider research into costs to the economy of Scotland suggests that if carers stopped doing what they do it would cost society almost the same as the entire NHS budget in Scotland.
The Center for Retirement Research studied the costs that afflict a typical self-directed 401(k) plan.
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Generic-drug companies usually have lower research and development costs (relative to sales) than the big pharmaceutical houses.
Also, the Irish companies pay for some of research and development costs incurred at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
Nearly all the expertise, research and sunk costs are in the old technology.
Earnings, however, decreased 37% because of higher selling, general and administrative expenses and a near doubling of research and development costs.
Chinese counterfeiters obviously save on research and development costs, but they still have to buy steel and other materials at market prices.
For his measure of profit, Resendes takes earnings before interest and depreciation, but after taxes, and also adds back research and development costs.
Otherwise, such transfers simply constitute a subsidy to the West's adversaries potentially worth billions of dollars in avoided research and development costs and enhanced military capabilities.
The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer more crop for the drop.
In computing alternative minimum taxable income, research and development costs have to be capitalized and amortized over ten years if you are not materially participating in the activities.
Here because of escalating research and development costs as well as shrinking budgets there is a need for solutions and products that are simple, less costly for everyday use.
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Some argue that research and development costs are investments for the future, the same as a new plant, and ought to be capitalized as assets and written down over a period of time.
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Under chief executive George Scangos, who took over two years ago, Biogen has focused its research and development costs on a handful of core programs, most of which are going to hit milestones by the end of the year.
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It's not actually clear whether Mr. Marchionne is factoring in research and development costs or whether he's talking purely of material costs, though Fiat's fate is hardly unique -- the Nissan Leaf isn't expected to generate a profit for a good couple of years yet.
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Existing literature provides information on health- and work-related costs, but with the exception of fuel costs, no published academic research offers insight into consumer-related costs, such as clothing, air travel, automobile size or furniture.
Research with polar rovers costs less than aircraft or satellites, the usual platforms.
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Funds from the fellowship can be used to help finance the Fellow's scientific research, including the costs of equipment, consumables, travel and conferences.
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According to Diana Choyleva, of Lombard Street Research, unit labour costs in US industry fell by 2% in 2009 and another 2.8% in 2010.
The GOP proposal cites research showing that higher costs for financial services resulting from Dodd-Frank would cost the economy nearly 5 million jobs by 2015.
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