Health officials could purchase lower-priced generic medicines without having to consider the patent status.

卫生官员无需考虑专利情况就能够购买低价的非专利药品。

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The study you will hear about today reviews the patent status of all 58 medicines added to the list, since 2003, in a large number of countries.

今天你即将听到的研究将评审大多数国家自2003年以来新加入清单的58种药物的专利状况。

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The industry is witnessing increased competition from generic drugs as an unprecedented number of branded medicines lose patent protection.

随着失去专利保护的品牌药物达到前所未有的数量，制药业面临的来自无商标药物的竞争日益激烈。

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In the United States, generics are dirt cheap, while the market for patent protected medicines is one of the most lucrative markets for any product.

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On Wednesday, ViiV Healthcare a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi announced it would grant a voluntary license to the Medicines Patent Pool to enable low-cost supply of a key pediatric HIV medicine in the 118 countries in which 98.7% of all HIV-positive children reside.

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Generic drugs, cheap knockoffs that hit the market after medicines lose patent protection, saw sales jump 20%.

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