Clinical Trials Arena December 8, 2023
The plans would allow third parties to manufacture such drugs if manufacturers make them unaffordable.
The Biden administration has announced plans to allow agencies to use march-in rights to seize patents of government-funded drugs if their producers price them too highly.
Part of the administration’s so-called “Bidenomics agenda”, the policy would utilise a clause in the 1980 Bayh–Dole Act that allows the government to grant production rights of government-funded patents to third parties if the product is not accessible to the public.
These march-in rights have never been exercised before, and the Trump administration attempted to disallow licencing on high price alone, so it is unclear whether this policy would be put into...
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