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BIG PHARM'S FOUR DECADES GAMING PATENT LAW AND MERGER & ACQUISITION

BIG PHARM'S FOUR DECADES GAMING PATENT LAW AND MERGER & ACQUISITION

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Follow the four decades:

Birth of big pharma

  • In the early 1980’s, Big Pharma was born.

  • Before that, there were large pharmaceutical companies who owned the assets and employed the people necessary to bring new drugs to market.

  • Baby big pharma tossed the assets and people away at birth, to focus on patenting molecular compounds and power sales & marketing.

  • That led to the valley of death (failure to get new products to market)

  • That led to the patent cliff (no product to replace patent-expired products).

Big pharma companies then began M&A activites to stem the bleeding.

  • 1995 - Glaxo acquires Wellcome ($15 billion)

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