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Duty of disclosure and duty of reasonable inquiry promote robust and reliable patents, drive competition and economic growth, and bring life-saving drugs to the American people

Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO

The United States is a global leader in new drug development. The important contributions and life-saving treatments developed by the pharmaceutical industry have fully or nearly eradicated deadly diseases like smallpox, polio, measles, diphtheria, hepatitis B, and meningitis, as well as created highly effective treatments for various cancers and chronic diseases. Much of this was made possible because of our strong patent protection.

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