JointHealth™ express - #ArthritisAtHome 313 – Australian Patient Advocacy Alliance partners on launch of Patients and patents campaign.
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JointHealth™ express - Arthritis At Home 310 – Patients & patents: Understanding how pharmaceutical patents affect medication cost.
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JointHealth™ express - “Patients and patents” campaign partners launch website to help patients understand how pharmaceutical patents affect access to affordable medications.
Visit the website here: patientsandpatents.info
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What good is a breakthrough medication if you can’t afford it? Patent manipulation can keep medication prices artificially high. For patients who can’t afford them, high costs force many to skip or ration their medication.
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A patent is a form of legal protection that gives a pharmaceutical manufacturer the exclusive right to sell an original-brand medication for a period of time.
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JointHealth™ express - Invitation to Digestive Cancers Europe’s “Patents: Empowering advocates through knowledge” webinar on November 6, 2025.
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Misuse of patent protection means patients pay higher prices for longer, are forced to choose between medications and necessities like food, and experience financial hardship.
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Without affordable alternatives, patients must use higher cost original-brand medications or delay treatment, which leads to disease progression, disability, and lower quality of life.
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Manufacturers use patent strategies (e.g. secondary patents on formulations, dosages or delivery method) to extend their market monopoly, which block competition.
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One of the drivers of higher medication costs is the misuse of patent protections by pharmaceutical manufacturers which may delay the availability of affordable generic & biosimilar medications.
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Generics and biosimilar manufacturers do not incur the same early research and development cost to bring the product to market and can therefore offer it at a lower price.
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A pharmaceutical patent is a form of legal protection that gives pharmaceutical manufacturers the exclusive right to sell a new original-brand medication for a certain period of time.
Learn more: bit.ly/CommonQuesti...
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Pharmaceutical patents should protect innovation for a set period. Some manufacturers use legal maneuvers to extend patents for years beyond their original terms, delaying competition from less costly biosimilars that are safe and effective.
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#Patientsandpatents
What good is a breakthrough medication if you can’t afford it? Patent manipulation can keep medication prices high. For patients who can’t afford them, high costs force many to skip or ration their medication.
Learn more: bit.ly/Patientsandp...
#Patientsandpatents @schroeder-uhn.bsky.social
Arthritis Consumer Experts, together with Australian Patient Advocacy Alliance and @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social, have launched the #Patientsandpatents campaign to increase patient community & public understanding of drug patents.
Learn more: bit.ly/Patientsandp...
@arthritispower.bsky.social
A pharmaceutical patent is a form of legal protection that gives a pharmaceutical manufacturer the exclusive right to sell a new original-brand medication for a certain period of time.
Learn more: bit.ly/Patientsandp...
#Patientsandpatents @arthritisdietitian.bsky.social @jwphysio.bsky.social
JointHealth™ express - #ArthritisAtHome 284 – #Patientsandpatents: An international grassroots education campaign on pharmaceutical patents.
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Arthritis Consumer Experts, together with Australian Patient Advocacy Alliance & @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social, have launched the #Patientsandpatents campaign to increase patient community and public understanding of drug #patents.
Learn more: bit.ly/Patientsandp...
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JointHealth™ express - Patients and patents: A grassroots education campaign on pharmaceutical patents. Learn more: bit.ly/Patientsandp...
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