H. R. 890, known as the “Stopping Pharma’s Ripoffs and Drug Savings For All Act”, aims to prevent pharmaceutical companies from extending the life of their patents inappropriately, a practice known as double patenting. It introduces a presumption that if multiple patents for...
Simple Explanation
This bill wants to make sure that companies can't keep using the same trick to hold onto their medicine ideas for too long, and asks for a check to see if any rules about these ideas need to be better.