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Adapted from the Canadian Healthcare Association's submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry currently reviewing Bill C-91, an Act to amend the Patent Act. Discusses the controversy surrounding this legislation, which extended patent protection to brand-name drug manufacturers to 20 years before generic copies of pharmaceuticals can be introduced on to the market.
改编自加拿大医疗保健协会提交给下议院工业常务委员会的材料,该委员会目前正在审议《C-91法案》,即一项修订《专利法》的法案。文中讨论了围绕该立法的争议,该立法将品牌药制造商的专利保护延长至20年,之后仿制药才能投放市场。