{"id":16447,"date":"2020-07-15T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16447"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:12:21","slug":"dozens-of-patents-protect-abbvies-pricey-cancer-drug-against-competition-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16447","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of patents protect AbbVie&#8217;s pricey cancer drug against competition, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katie Adams for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>AbbVie\u00a0wields at least 88 patents\u00a0to guard Imbruvica, its expensive cancer treatment, against competition from generic drugmakers, according to recent analysis from the nonprofit I-MAK.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/dozens-of-patents-protect-abbvie-s-pricey-cancer-drug-against-competition-report-finds.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katie Adams for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) AbbVie\u00a0wields at least 88 patents\u00a0to guard Imbruvica, its expensive cancer treatment, against competition from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}