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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 26, 2023
But what I have seen is, in particular in the drug industry, an abuse by patent holders of that period of exclusivity.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont
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Welch discusses the abuse of patent exclusivity in the drug industry.

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