The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the validity of over 100 drug product patents, focusing on devices used to deliver medicines, like inhalers and autoinjectors, in an effort to increase ...

During its annual conference in Spain, Medicines for Europe shared recommendations for greater use of off-patent medications, such as biosimilars and generics, as a way ensure medicines remain ...

Prioritising public health in intellectual property rights is what the doctor ordered for low- and middle-income countries to ...

Amid concerns that the pharmaceutical industry abuses the U.S. patent system, a new paper suggests one way to crack down on the problem — amend a little-known method for correcting mistakes that ...

In June 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Federal Pure Food and Drug Act. The measure became law on Jan. 1, 1907. This marked the end of the “Golden Age of Quackery.” ...