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Zombie patents — they cost the healthcare system billions, but just won’t die

David P. Hamilton, VentureBeat02.28.2008
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patent-lock-photo.jpg I’ve been generally unsympathetic to cries that biotech and medical-device companies will suffer if U.S. patent law is reformed, and that has a lot to do with some of the grotesque patent abuses biopharma companies have perpetrated — quite legally — over the years in order to lock out competition for... (Read more)

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