brevet de médicament

CONT: La durée de vie du brevet de médicament avait été normalement fixée par le droit commun à vingt ans, mais compte-tenu d'une part du coût [...] de la durée de mise au point et des innombrables essais thérapeutiques en vue d'obtenir l'autorisation de mise sur le marché (A.M.M.) [...]

CONT: There are also composition of matter patent for medicine itself, process patent for the manufacturing method of medicine and pharmaceutical patent for the preparation of medicine.
CONT: Medicines themselves can now be patented. Accordingly, there are three types of claims that can be made in a medicine patent: a claim for the medicine itself, known as a product claim ...
CONT: As an incentive, pharmaceutical companies that conduct these studies might receive an extension of their medication patent for the product being tested ...