Foreign drug import is now legal: discussion thread

Michel
Tue, 30 May 2017 16:06:45 +0000
Insurance

Today’s new Supreme Court decision on foreign patent rights appears to makes it legal to import drugs that are FDA-approved from lower-priced markets into the US.

In Impression Products vs Lexmark, the Supreme Court just ruled that patent rights are exhausted when a patent holder sells a product abroad, meaning that they cannot stop the product from being imported into a third country by claiming it violates patent rights.

This is a MAJOR shift, that may have momentous consequences on the price of drugs in the US.

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The material accompanying this announcement has become so large that we now have a dedicated thread for the core information. That thread remains closed, so that we may be able to append to it as needed – this one, however, is open!
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The present thread represents the discussion thread for the core material listed above.

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