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Senators Hatch and Enzi Champion 12-Year Data Exclusivity in Senate

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- As reported today in The Wall Street Journal, the innovator biotechnology industry scored a major victory in the Senate on Monday, when that chamber's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved an amendment providing a 12-year data exclusivity period for biologic drug makers. The committee voted 16-7 in favor of a proposal put forth by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT; at left) and Michael Enzi (R-WY; below right), and rejected Senator Sherrod Brown's (D-OH) amendment for a 5-year data exclusivity term. In doing so, the committee also rejected the Federal Trade Commission's rationale that data exclusivity...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).