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Biotech/Pharma Lobbying Scoreboard - 1st Quarter '09

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

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By Donald Zuhn -- While the recession has certainly had an effect on biotech/pharma patent filings, the recession appears to have had little impact on lobbying expenditures in the biotech/pharma industry. With the reporting period for first quarter lobbying now passed, many biotech/pharma companies and organizations not only kept pace with, but handily surpassed, their first quarter spending from a year ago: ? The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the pharmaceutical industry's primary trade group, spent $6.9 million on first quarter lobbying (see Forbes report), up from the $3.6 million the organization spent in the first quarter of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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