The United States originally had a 17 year patent length for pharmaceutical drugs. We then had to increase that patent length in order to be in accordance with the wto. And That meant that pharmaceutical companies held onto their patents longer. Drugs could not go generic. That meant that it drove up costs on health care systems in the entire world in order to more benefit the bottom line of pharmaceutical … (30:49–30:55)
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Asserts that increased patent lengths allowed pharmaceutical companies to hold patents longer.
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