Article: DEMOCRATS: HATCH-WAXMAN ACT EXPLOITED BY PHARMA INDUSTRY.(patent law loopholes benefit pharmaceutical companies)(Brief Article)

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats have biotechnology and pharmaceutical lobbyists scrambling to preserve all elements of the 18-year-old law that created the generic drug industry.

Instead of debating Medicare legislation to provide prescription drug coverage for the elderly in the last few months before the mid-term elections, the Senate is looking at poking holes in the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.

"There has been an unrelenting, distorted and steady drumbeat of criticism aimed at the research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry for the last several months - and now it has taken its toll," Jeff Trewhitt, spokesman for the Washington-based ...

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