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REPORT Health and Social ProgramsIntellectual Property

Promoting Good Ideas on Drugs: Are Patents the Best Way?

October 2002, Dean Baker and Noriko Chatani

This paper notes six important ways in which patent rents in the pharmaceutical industry lead to wasteful or harmful behavior, and explores alternative systems that would be more efficient.

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