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Patents are expensive. Yet they are unfair.

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Do you know what evergreening is? Sounds nice, but it's an extremely unfair strategy to extend the 20-year patent protection of medicines. Simply changing the route of administration, playing around with the molecule a bit or finding a new indication and the protection is extended. This way, companies can continue to charge high prices.  Follow the conversation:  #patentskill .   Patents are expensive. Yet they are unfair.