Are Patents Impeding Medical Care and Innovation?
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Are Patents Impeding Medical Care and Innovation?
BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers argue that the current patent system is crucial for stimulating research and development (R&D), leading to new products that improve medical care. The financial return on their investments that is afforded by patent protection, they claim, is an incentive toward innovation and reinvestment into further R&D. But this view h...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000208