Chris Versace (with a position at New Jersey City University (NJCU)) criticizes pharma industry proposals on IPRs, without mentioning the forays of Kyle Bass: According to a Politico report, “The drug industry is circulating a sign-on letter to build support for exempting drugs from a streamlined patent challenge process, a key issue stalling the House’s Innovation Act.” Given the growing target market that is domestic aging population and the critical nature of drug patent life, it is hardly surprising to learn the pharmaceutical industry has deployed lobbyists to add a last minute provision that would scale back the Inter Partes Review (IPR), a process that allows an efficient way to challenge illegitimate patents.Link from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/ChrisVersace/Health-Care-Lobbyists-Patent-Provision/2015/08/30/id/672679/#ixzz3kOvUv3cE IAM covered the issue in July 2015, noting:During mark-up of the PATENT Act last month, Senator Schumer…
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