> Off-topic, but your comment reminded me of evergreening of medical drug patents Wow thanks for the rabbit hole. Clicked around and found “me-too drugs”[1]:

> Off-topic, but your comment reminded me of evergreening of medical drug patents Wow thanks for the rabbit hole. Clicked around and found “me-too drugs”[1]: > a medication that is similar to a pre-existing drug, usually by making minor modifications to the prototype […] used to treat conditions for which drugs already exist Yep. Same playbook for sure. > The changed version of the drug is simultaneously different enough from the unchanged version that the pharmaceutical company can successfully apply for a new patent from the USPTO and similar enough that anyone who wants to make a biosimilar of the unchanged version can still be sued for patent infringement. Beyond! This is like Soviet levels of kafkaesque rules. All in the free market country of USA. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me-too_drug https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me-too_drug