'Radical' bill seeks to reduce cost of AIDS drugs by awarding prizes instead ... - Washington Post

'Radical' bill seeks to reduce cost of AIDS drugs by awarding prizes instead ...
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In lieu of patent protection, the company that invented the drug could win a prize from a pool funded by insurance companies and the federal government at $3 billion per year. To win, companies would have to show that a drug performed better than older ...
Sen. Sanders' Common Sense on HIV Drugs Would Save Money and Lives Huffington Post (blog)

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Shift from patents regime to prize-based system will revolutionise research ... - Economic Times


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Shift from patents regime to prize-based system will revolutionise research ...
Economic Times
Even the part that is not government-financed is not a conventional market; most individuals' purchases of prescription medicines are covered by insurance. Government finances healthcare research because improved medicines are a public good.
Drug Plan Draws Fire in India Wall Street Journal
Even some domestic firms rail at India's price control plan FiercePharma

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Patents Aren't Only for Engineers - New York Times

Patents Aren't Only for Engineers
New York Times
I NEVER considered that I might obtain a patent one day. To me, patents were mostly for engineers, not for actuaries like me. At Towers Watson, I advise insurance companies on risks associated with their businesses. I'm also a mathematics professor in ...

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New RPost Cloud Partner Program Provides Enhanced Integration and Patent ... - MarketWatch (press release)

New RPost Cloud Partner Program Provides Enhanced Integration and Patent ...
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In defense of partner revenues in 2011, RPost brought Federal patent infringement suits in California, Texas, and Virginia against Swiss Post, Canada Post, ZixCorp, Docusign, Adobe Echosign, RightSignature, Farmers Insurance, and others.

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OAI: Progressive Lawsuits Mark Start of Fight Over Auto Insurance Patents - Business Review USA (press release)

OAI: Progressive Lawsuits Mark Start of Fight Over Auto Insurance Patents
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"[F]or the past decade Progressive has aggressively sought patents around innovations in telematic auto insurance," the report's authors stated, adding that the insurer's ownership of the "Pay-As-You-Drive" title barred Unigard's use of it for a ...

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FICO Awarded 17 New Patents For Innovations In Predictive Analytics, Credit ... - MarketWatch (press release)

FICO Awarded 17 New Patents For Innovations In Predictive Analytics, Credit ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... more comprehensive data mining; analyzing insurance claims to detect revenue leakage and over-billing; and creating a new real-time system for event probability prediction. Two of the 17 new patents are for inventions related to the FICO® Score, ...

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Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent - Insurance News Net (press release)

Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent
Insurance News Net (press release)
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , May 17 -- Hartford Fire Insurance , Hartford, Conn. , has been assigned a patent (8180656) developed by Edwin Clifford Barron Jr ., Suffield, Conn. , Thomas P. Kalmbach , Southwick, Mass. , and Michael J.

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