Turns out many many of the drug companies have been abusing the systems. The feds created a process for handling drug patents, and companies keep filing extenua

Turns out many many of the drug companies have been abusing the systems. The feds created a process for handling drug patents, and companies keep filing extenuating patents on existing stuff, and they also have been submitting not just drugs but devices to the registry illegally too, to hold monopoly. No one has guarded the registry. FTC is finally taking some charge, after all the other agencies (patent office, FDA) have failed to do any enforcement. Really good recent write up by the usual king of company & capitalism watching, https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-how-ftc-chair-lina https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-how-ftc...