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But the pharmaceutical companies counter that they need to preserve longer the billions of dollars in revenue from their patented products in order to recover the billions they spend developing new drugs.

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At issue is whether federal law blocks the reproduction of patented products without compensation to an original inventor.

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Among the casualties were two much-touted economic reform bills, one to open insurance to competition and foreign investment, the other to curb piracy of patented products.

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"The dispute concerns both Ericsson's patented technology that is essential to several telecommunications and networking standards used by Samsung's products as well as other of Ericsson's patented inventions that are frequently implemented in wireless and consumer electronics products, " Ericsson said in a statement.

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Mr Vasella claims that big buyers, such as Wal-Mart in America and health-care providers in emerging markets, want to be able to buy a full range of patented and generic products from one supplier.

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