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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (36580)8/27/2009 4:15:22 PM
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Re: "I don't think the color example is real, and I'm not so sure about the filler example either"

They both are.

(But they - typically - occur more with applications for *extensions* of expiring patents, not with brand new patent applications.)

In either case though (tacking more years on to a patent that would otherwise expire on schedule, or else granting a new patent application) the economic effect is the same: delayed emergence of lower-priced competition from generics and bigger profits for the original patent holder from the protected market.
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