Congress, in implementing legislation, allowed companies that had made a major start-up investment to sell rival products during the extended patent period if they paid royalties to the original brand owner.
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The same fight has been raging on Capitol Hill, where the Senate last week rejected, on a 49-48 vote, a proposal to let generic drug makers go ahead with marketing plans during the extended patent period.
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The company argued that the FDA rules make the generic drug industry the only business that is denied the benefits of the GATT provisions that allow the sale of products, with royalty payments, during the extended patent period.
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The company argued that the FDA rules makes the generic drug industry the only business that is denied the benefits of the GATT provisions that allow the sale of products during the extended patent period, as long as royalties are paid.
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The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1926 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semiconducting devices ( the JFET ) were developed only much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947, immediately after the 20-year patent period eventually expired.
