Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27115842›Full record

ArticlemAbs2016

Extending the market exclusivity of therapeutic antibodies through dosage patents.

Ulrich Storz

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Article in mAbs, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ulrich Storza Senior Partner, Michalski · Hüttermann & Partner Patent Attorneys , Düsseldorf , Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dosage patents are one way to extend the market exclusivity of an approved drug beyond the lifetime of the patent that protects the drug as such. Dosage patents may help to compensate the applicant for the long period where the active pharmaceutical ingredient as such is already under patent prosecution, but not on the market yet, due to lengthy development and approval procedures. This situation erodes part of the time the drug is marketed under patent protection. Dosage patents filed at a later date can provide remedy for this problem. Examples of successful and unsuccesful attempts, and the reasons for the respective outcomes, are provided in this article.

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalDrug ApprovalHumansImmunotherapyAntibodies, MonoclonalDosagefractionationinventive steppatentrituximabtrastuzumab

Identifiers

PMID27115842
PMCPMC4968089

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