00:00The 20-Year Legal Clock on Life-Saving Drug Patents is actually a calculated and extremely high-stakes legal fiction.
00:07While federal law promises generic competition after two decades, the hidden corporate reality is always far different.
00:15Pharmaceutical giants employ a predatory strategy called Evergreening to file hundreds of minor and redundant secondary patents.
00:22They patent the pill's coating color, the specific manufacturing humidity, or even a slightly modified daily dosage.
00:31This creates a dense patent thicket that traps affordable generic competitors in several decades of expensive litigation.
00:38One single blockbuster drug can often be shielded by over 150 overlapping and conflicting claims.
00:45By constantly resetting the monopoly clock, they maintain predatory prices long after recovering all their research costs.
00:53Your health insurance premiums rise because affordable generic alternatives are legally barred from ever entering the market.
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