patent
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In 2024, brand-name drugs still under patent protection accounted for just one in 10 of the drugs prescribed to patients and 87.7% of the costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Wu has filed a patent on the technology through the WashU Office of Technology Management.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
A patent application has also been filed for the device.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
BMS is trading at a low valuation as it heads into a patent cliff, with two drugs that together represent nearly half of its sales due to lose patent protection, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
“His face seemed to be grayer and his patent leather hair thinner,” one of the journalists, Stanley Karnow, later wrote.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Within a few years, he had filed hundreds of patents and electrified lower Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Basel-based group is facing the expiry of patents for a number of its drugs, including Entresto, a flagship treatment for heart failure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The patents cover both the scanner design and the image-processing techniques, including the NN developed by Alonso-Monsalve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Drs. Michelle Bradbury and Ulrich Wiesner are inventors on patents related to the technology described in this study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Loomis obtained other patents, including one for a mechanical horse-race toy, but he was proudest of the Aberdeen Chronograph, which became standard field equipment for the army and the navy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
If a patented drug is listed by the U.S. government as in short supply, compounders can legally produce it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
For the new study, the researchers examined much larger particles created through a patented high-temperature flame process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
MP says it wanted to keep it so secret that it wasn’t patented, to avoid any public disclosures about the technique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Instead, that led to a years-long effort with engineers and other experts to develop their patented technology.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
At Fudan, Lu has continued to research infectious diseases, recently patenting technology for an improved Covid-19 antiviral, which was licensed by an American company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
In his spare time, he enjoys inventing and patenting original ideas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
But manufacturers have long tweaked the delivery methods, patenting the changes, in ways that sometimes make the drugs more convenient to administer.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024
With the help of hid dad, he setup Arcane Footwear in 2021 after patenting a magnetic spring cushion which can be used in trainers.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Lawrence eventually accepted the patenting of scientific inventions as a necessary evil.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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