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Is it possible to patent a mere mixture of two existing and patented drugs?
I would guess so. You can even get a new patent on an existing drug for use on a different disease. It would help if the mechanism for the synergy was not an obvious thing to someone skilled in the ...
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Why do pharmaceutical patents needs to list other drugs the patented drug could be combined with?
Why exhaustively list combinations for a drug?
It could be to prevent others from patenting these combinations, or to establish that they thought of these combinations first.
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