Sentences with phrase «lost patent protection»

The decline was due to increased use of generic drugs as some popular brand - name drugs lost patent protection, increases in cost - sharing requirements, and lower spending on new medicines.

The combined company could initially have annual sales of over $ 65 billion, but there has been speculation that the merger could quickly be followed by a spinoff of some lower - margin businesses, including drugs that have lost patent protection.

Celgene loses patent protection by 2022 for Revlimid, its top - selling multiple myeloma drug that brought in about 60 percent of fiscal third quarter revenue of nearly $ 3.3 billion.

When this happens, it could be a very difficult time for the pharmaceutical industry, which makes the time before the cliff all the more important as companies scramble to shore up their product lines and get their balance sheets in order before their products lose their patent protection [see also Is Your Biotech ETF A Leader Or Laggard?].

That's because, prior to losing patent protection, Lovenox was hauling in as much as $ 4 billion in revenue per year.

In January 2009 New York - based Pfizer, maker of the blockbuster drug Lipitor, which loses patent protection in November 2011, announced plans to buy Wyeth.

Not exact matches

For example, a Supplementary Protection Certificate in Europe may be applied for approval to recover some of the time lost between the patent application filing date and the date of first marketing authorization.

If you start marketing or otherwise disclose your invention to the public before filing for patent protection, remember that you must file your patent application within one year of disclosure and be the first to file, or you lose the right to protection.

Then if the patent does not issue, the inventor has lost all proprietary protection.

In their appeal, AlphaCap Ventures» attorneys argue that the law of patent eligibility — particularly the law regarding when a claimed invention is an abstract idea and thus ineligible for patent protection — is so unsettled that a court should never award fees when a party loses on the issue.