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How Singapore can lead biopharma innovation

The Republic needs to align its patent term extension regime with international standards, and so start attracting more clinical trials.

Wed, Mar 04, 2020 - 5:50 AM

ANDREW JENNER

CHRISTINA TEO

For pharmaceutical companies, patents are the primary way to offset the high R&D costs that can stretch over decades, and ensure sustainable investment into the medicines of tomorrow.

BT PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG

SINGAPORE is known by the global innovation and intellectual property (IP) expert community as a leader in the protection of IP rights. The latest International Property Rights Index for 2019 again listed Singapore as having Asia's strongest protection of intellectual property (IP) rights;...