By Kristen Osenga Cross-posted with permission from Professor Osenga’s December 8, 2025, LinkedIn article I’ve seen a lot of misinformation circulating online lately about patents and their role in drug prices. Some articles – like this one – claim that so-called “patent thickets” are an abusive strategy drug companies use to keep prices high. The […]
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The following post comes from Yumi Oda, an LLM Candidate at Scalia Law and a Research Assistant at CPIP. By Yumi Oda Many believe that drug prices in the U.S. are unnecessarily high because the pharmaceutical industry is exploiting legal loopholes and acquiring dubious patents to extend protection and delay generics from entering the market […]