EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge. The Hatch-Waxman amendments to the Food and Drug Act entitle pharmaceutical companies that first bring a drug to market to a five-year period of exclusivity, even if the drug is unpatented. 21 U.S.C. § 355 . Bristol-Myers Squibb was first to market with paclitaxel, a compound derived from the bark of the yew tree an…
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