Dr. John Calvert at the International Trade Committee

On February 4th, 2014. See this statement in context.

February 4th, 2014 / 3:55 p.m.

Associate Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, As an Individual

We extended patent protection up to 20 years. Then, with some other bells and whistles that the industry has managed to arrange, it's probably in the vicinity of 22 or 23, depending on the drug and so on.

So we extended patent protection, which means it takes much longer for generics to get on the market.

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