Economy
AbbVie protected its blockbuster drug Humira from cheap generic competition for two decades by deliberately constructing an impenetrable legal fortress of over one hundred…
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Why invent new medicines when you can just hire a small army of lawyers to patent the exact same drug 130 times? By weaponizing the intellectual property system, pharmaceutical giants create 'patent thickets' that cover everything from the manufacturing process to the injection pen design. This legal chokepoint artificially extends their lucrative monopoly, forcing patients to pay exorbitant prices for decades.
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