{"id":1003624,"date":"2023-02-23T22:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=faa17003c0f5ea1ec1777c3ac4e1e0e7"},"modified":"2023-02-23T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:15:36","slug":"warren-sanders-mercks-hunt-to-extend-cancer-drug-patent-may-be-patent-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/23\/warren-sanders-mercks-hunt-to-extend-cancer-drug-patent-may-be-patent-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren, Sanders: Merck\u2019s Hunt to Extend Cancer Drug Patent May Be Patent Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) have raised concerns that pharmaceutical giant Merck&rsquo;s request to extend the patent for a top cancer drug could represent another move from Big Pharma to abuse the patent system and maintain a monopoly on a life-saving drug. The lawmakers are urging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to scrutinize Merck&rsquo;s application for new...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/warren-sanders-mercks-hunt-to-extend-cancer-drug-patent-may-be-patent-abuse\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/warren-sanders-mercks-hunt-to-extend-cancer-drug-patent-may-be-patent-abuse\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merck has submitted new patents that could allow the company to maintain its monopoly on the drug until at least 2036.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3387,5743,5943,31348,41117,9170,15037,6183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003625,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003624\/revisions\/1003625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}