Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes accelerated ageing Drug repurposing is often regarded as a cinderella child of new medicine discovery because ‘old drugs have expired patent exclusivities and the commercial opportunity is absent’. This is an erroneous view, because, in the first place, there are multiple ways to patent an […]
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Drug repurposing, the development of new uses for existing drugs, is based significantly on method of use patents. That much is obvious. But for these patent applications to be granted, and defensible, they must be ‘non-obvious’, or surprising. Despite being based on literature evidence, the DrugRepurposing Online database is designed to do exactly that — […]