#evergreening — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #evergreening, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Long thread/20
In service to that end, pharma companies have perfected a process called #evergreening, where they dribble out ancillary patents after their initial filing, covering minor reformulations, delivery systems, or new uses.
Evergreening got a moment in the public eye earlier this year, with #JohnGreen's viral campaign to shame #JohnsonAndJohnson out of using evergreening to restrict poor countries' access to #TB medication:
https://armandalegshow.com/episode/john-green-part-1/
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Thanks To #Evergreening And Legal Threats, AbbVie Has Earned $114 Billion Since 2016 From A Drug Whose Key Patent Expired Back Then - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/10/thanks-to-evergreening-and-legal-threats-abbvie-has-earned-114-billion-since-2016-from-a-drug-whose-key-patent-expired-back-then/#comments the patent system is not fit for purpose... #humira
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Reading my new #JohnsHopkins colleague #RaviGupta's paper on new drug formulations in #JAMAHealthForum
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35977259/
Levels of devious #pharma and clever data
Devious + #NewToMe: #Evergreening #ProductHopping
Super Cool #data: #DrugInnovativeness and #Prescrire