The us. Has been a really strong defender of such patents is because we have a strong pharmacutical sector. The way that they sort of recoup all these massive investments they put into research and development is to be able to hold a patent for some period of time. It's 20 years from the point of filing, and then they get exclusivity on the market. And so those laws exist to protect the pharmacaceutical industries ability to make profits and recoup those investments.

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