Report pulls no punches in critique of drug patent abuse

16 September 2022

The Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK), a campaign group seeking to drive down the cost of medicines, has taken aim at pharma firms’ protection of their patents.

I-MAK has published a new report entitled Overpatented, Overpriced: 2022 to expose what the group describes as ‘pervasive abuse of the US drug patent system’.

This gaming of patents is the root cause of the drug pricing crisis that is causing more than one in four Americans to struggle to afford high-cost prescription medicines, I-MAK says.

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