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Why Are Drug Patents Important?

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 10mins

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1.

How many stages does a pharmaceutical product go through during its development?

a)

1 stage

b)

2 stages

c)

3 stages

d)

More than 3 stages. It depends on the type of medication.

2.

Pre-clinical development

a)

are experiments or observations done in clinical research. Such prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants are designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietary choices, dietary supplements, and medical devices) and known interventions that warrant further study and comparison.

b)

In drug development, preclinical development, also termed preclinical studies or nonclinical studies, is a stage of research that begins before clinical trials (testing in humans) and during which important feasibility, iterative testing and drug safety data are collected, typically in laboratory animals.

c)

=Animal testing

3.

Clinical trial

a)

= to use as a cure for a disease

b)

are experiments or observations done in clinical research. Such prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants are designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietary choices, dietary supplements, and medical devices) and known interventions that warrant further study and comparison.

c)

the process of the testing new chemical entities (NCEs, also known as new molecular entities or NMEs) are compounds that emerge from the process of drug discovery.

4.

a ------ is a type of intellectual property right that provides protection over an invention. Therefore, if you, as an inventor have a patent, no one else can create, use, manufacture, or sell your invention without your prior approval.

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5.

Could you write why do you think it is important to patent a new pharmaceutical drug?

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6.

• Patents contribute to roughly 80% of the overall revenue of pharmaceutical companies.

• Obtaining patent protection is important to safeguard the innovative approaches used by pharma companies.

• Drug patents help recoup investments that are incurred during the research and development stage.

• Drug patents can secure against infringement cases, as competitors can easily duplicate the manufacturing of a drug.

• Drug patents help raise venture capital, which thus improves the overall economic growth of companies operating in this industry.

a)

There are benefits of drug patents

b)

There are disadvantages of drug patents

c)

There are stages of the development of new drugs

7.

Do patents really promote innovation? Why? (Why not?)

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8.

What is a process of drug development?

a)

is the process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery

b)

is the process of creation of new medicines in the scientific laboratory

c)

is the process of the patent a new drug

d)

is the process of the license of the new drugs