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The "Evergreening" Metaphor In Intellectual Property Scholarship, Erika Lietzan
The "Evergreening" Metaphor In Intellectual Property Scholarship, Erika Lietzan
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This article is a plea for changes in the scholarly dialogue about "evergreening" by drug companies. Allegations that drug companies engage in "evergreening" are pervasive in legal scholarship, economic scholarship, medical and health policy scholarship, and policy writing, and they have prompted significant policymaking proposals. This Article was motivated by concern that the metaphor has not been fully explained and that policymaking in response might therefore be premature. It canvasses and assesses the scholarly literature-more than 300 articles discussing or mentioning "evergreening." It catalogues the definitions, the examples, and the empirical studies. Scholars use the term when describing certain actions …
The Myths Of Data Exclusivity, Erika Lietzan
The Myths Of Data Exclusivity, Erika Lietzan
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This article contributes to an ongoing academic and public policy dialogue over whether and on what terms U.S. law should provide “data exclusivity” for new medicines. Five years after a new drug has been approved on the basis of an extensive application that may have cost more than one billion dollars to generate, federal law permits submission of a much smaller application to market a duplicate version of the drug. This second application is a different type of application, and it may cost no more than a few million dollars to prepare. A similar sequence is true for biological medicines: …
2004 Update - 180-Day Exclusivity Under The Hatch-Waxman Amendments To The Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act, Erika Lietzan
2004 Update - 180-Day Exclusivity Under The Hatch-Waxman Amendments To The Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act, Erika Lietzan
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This article updates the author's previously published article on the topic, provides some insight into recent events in this area of the law, and specifies a few minor items that were noted incorrectly in the earlier work.