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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:31 PM
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9. They're not "losing" anything. They knew what the period of protection
was when they first patented the drugs.

It's funny they frame it as losing money.

The only reason they got the money for these drugs was because they got patent protection in the first place.

In their annual reports for the past 17 years or whatever, were they writing about this unexpected windfall of billions of dollars of profits due to the surprise that the US gov't was giving them a monopoly for their inventions?
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