tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4241416962008169508.post8700794432736857033..comments2024-03-29T06:40:19.495-04:00Comments on Just A Life Sciences Blog...: Legacy Schering-Plough's K-Dur® 20: A Surprising "Pay For Delay" Loss -- On AppealUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4241416962008169508.post-88653754577259113972012-07-17T08:34:50.578-04:002012-07-17T08:34:50.578-04:00I hear you, Anon.
I've updated the graphic he...I hear you, Anon.<br /><br />I've updated the graphic here, to make plain that the original patent (the '743 patent) on which K-Dur claims its monopoly power. . .<br /><br />is now 23 years old. The typical outside date term for such a patent is 17 years.<br /><br />Afterall, it is simply a potassium chloride crystal, coated to dissolve slowly in the gut.<br /><br />I do admire the 1980s era ingenuity it took to create the drug -- but 23 years seems more than long enough to recoup the R&D, plus book a massive profit stream.<br /><br />Thanks for looking in on us -- do stop back!<br /><br />NamasteCondorhttp://shearlingsplowed.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4241416962008169508.post-25743058172186189482012-07-16T23:10:52.997-04:002012-07-16T23:10:52.997-04:00It is about time! I have been in countless present...It is about time! I have been in countless presentations and meetings where Mr. Frazier has crowed about how good he has it as a captain of an industry where prices go up while manufacturing costs largely remain flat. How he is the envy of many of hs other CEO brethren - until possibly now. <br /><br />It is about time that the consumers' interest land at the forefront of such an issue. After all, this is not a non-essential consumer good that so many anti-trust cases have been about. These are life saving/sustaining medicines for which their inventors have reaped the maximum patent market life. The fact that companies such as Merck, especially, with credos about medicine being for the people would pay another manufacturer not to produce a lower cost equivalent after patent expiry is reprehensible. <br /><br />Bring on the Supremes and stop some of the madness that makes our healthcare costs unnecessarily high!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com