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The White House today will take a long-awaited step to potentially broaden the government’s authority to undermine patents for medicines developed with taxpayer funding — including considering a drug’s price as one part of the framework, my co-author Sarah and I report.
The pharmaceutical industry has argued that the possibility of patents being invalidated creates instability in the funding pipeline. But it’s unclear whether the Biden administration is actually planning to use this authority at all in the next year.
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