Posted by mav27 on November 13, 2008, at 4:33:07
In reply to Drug Patents should be extened..What do you think, posted by KimStereo on November 12, 2008, at 15:01:57
Isn't there a chance it could also lead to newer drugs taking longer to be made.. for eg instead of having lexapro now... which is similar technically but if you've taken both they seem like totally different drugs.. you could end up with the company having simply waited 10 years instead of 5 to release the lexapro.. i'm sure enough people are still on celexa to make them a profit for the time being.
(i don't know the length of patents so i just used 5 and 10 as examples)Or we would still have both now but both would be patented meaning no generic celexa for the people with less money.
Personally i'm glad it's worked the way it has as i find Lexapro to be life saving.. literally.. where as Celexa didn't work at all for me.
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