A look at the maintenance rates of US patents protecting FDA-approved biologics and small molecules.
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Marimuthu, G., Kumari, S., Kandasamy, M. et al. Maintaining patents protecting biologics or small-molecule drugs. Nat Biotechnol 30, 50–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2082
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