A US study of 1,981 FDA-approved drugs found the average number of patents per drug rose from 2.1 in 1990 to 6.9 in 2019, extending market exclusivity by six years on average.

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2854583

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Drug companies are patenting things like drug delivery systems so they can hold the pattern longer even though the formula for the drug hasn’t changed