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Former House Ways and Means Economist Claims 7-Year Data Exclusivity Period Is Sufficient

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, Alex Brill (at right), a principal at Matrix Global Advisors, LLC and former chief economist to the House Ways and Means Committee, released a white paper which asserts that a follow-on biologics regulatory pathway providing a data exclusivity period of seven years would be "sufficient for maintaining strong incentives to innovate while fostering a competitive marketplace." The 12-page paper, entitled "Proper Duration of Data Exclusivity for Generic Biologics: A Critique," was funded by Teva Pharmaceuticals (see Teva press release), which also funded a report on data exclusivity released last September (see "BU Economics Professor...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).