Big Pharma defends patent power - BBC Health News 22nd April 2008

You might think the real battles between drugs companies are fought by scientists in laboratories, competing with each other to get new treatments to people who need them. The truth is that lawyers and the pilots of aircraft have also got big roles to play. The pilots because when the patent on a drug made by a big pharmaceutical company expires, great cargo planes full of copies are already in the air, ready to land and in markets the following morning.

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