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Law Professors Contend that Data Exclusivity Is Secondary Issue in FOB Debate

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- In a paper published earlier this month, David Adelman and Christopher Holman assert that in the debate on follow-on biologics legislation, "the controversy over regulatory 'data exclusivity' is a sideshow." The authors argue that policymakers should instead "focus on mitigating the systemic barriers to entry that pose much greater and longer-term obstacles to lower-cost biotech drugs." Dr. Adelman (at right) the Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and Dr. Holman (below left), Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (and author of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).