Altpräparat
English translation: old substance
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| German to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals | |||||
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peer agreement (net): +2| Altpräparat old substance Explanation: Thus, while the patent system provides an incentive to discover new substances with medicinal benefits, it provides less of an incentive to investigate possible benefits from the use of an old substance to treat a present-day health problem, since the old substance is not going to be patentable. One possibility is to secure method patent coverage on the newly discovered use of the old substance, but such coverage is often less strong than utility patent coverage on the substance itself. http://www.patents.com/faq.htm |
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