Biopharma Execs, Obama Go Face-To-Face Over TPP
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
President Barack Obama heard firsthand from a half dozen or so biopharmaceutical executives during an Oct. 8 White House face-to-face meeting about the industry's disappointment in the administration for agreeing to a minimum of five years of exclusivity protection for innovator biologics against biosimilars in the final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal rather than the 12 years required in the US by law.
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