The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled Lilly's method-of-use patent for Strattera, which had been set to expire in 2017, was invalid.

美国新泽西区地方法院已经做出裁决，认定礼来公司将于2017年过期的Strattera药物专利是无效的。

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They require patent applicants to declare any use of hereditary material obtained from humans, animals, plants or microbes if inventions are dependent on those genetic resources.

如果发明中利用了基因资源，专利申请人必须申明其所使用的所有从人、动植物或微生物中获取的遗传物质。

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The patent holder can demand payment for the right to its use.

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People are fine with it, because if companies instead use the patent system to shut out other start-ups, less innovation happens.

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The New York-based drug giant filed a lawsuit last year in the U.S.District Court inDelaware, alleging both Cialis and Levitra infringe a recent Viagra "method-of-use" patent.

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Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.

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