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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. 4 The initial patents are usually filed during drug discovery. The patent will typically expire after 20 years.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.