By Ana Nicholls, Healthcare Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The UK Financial Times this week (March 18) flagged up data from Withers & Rogers, a London-based IP firm, showing how the numbers of patent filings from the ten leading pharma companies has dropped in recent years. According to the law firm, only 129 “patent families” [...]
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