It loses patent protection in 2011.

它将在2011年失去专利保护。

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The reasons are manifold: First, few blockbuster drugs lost their patent protection.

原因是多方面的：首先，一些重点药物失去了专利保护。

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Many of big Pharma's biggest blockbusters will soon lose their patent protection.

许多大的制药公司的最盈利的药品不久将失去专利的保护。

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According to WTO rules, countries must either accept the WTO's stringent patent-protection regime for plant and animal products or set up their own systems for protection.

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EU's 20 official languages. (The cost of translation makes getting a patent in Europe far more expensive than in, say, America.) This would have created broad patent-protection and cut costs for inventors.

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So fluid are their markets, and so weak the historical patent-protection in them, that bosses often prefer to keep things in the dark and come up with the next innovation as necessary to stay ahead of the competition.

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