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For Big Drug Companies, a Headache Looms

From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

July 27, 2012

It would seem a business executive's dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years. Congress has failed to stop it, and for more than a decade generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it. Until this month (Wyatt, The New York Times, 7/26).

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