Pharmaceutical Product Liability, Litigation Regimes, and the Propensity to Patent: An Empirical Firm-Level Investigation
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عنوان ژورنال: SAGE Open
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2158-2440,2158-2440
DOI: 10.1177/21582440211009470