{"id":25531,"date":"2020-03-13T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25531"},"modified":"2020-03-14T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:30:36","slug":"image-of-the-day-patent-rights-and-u-s-pharmaceutical-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25531\/image-of-the-day-patent-rights-and-u-s-pharmaceutical-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Patent Rights and U.S. Pharmaceutical Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our Liberty Update this week, we emphasize the critical role that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/4910-dont-jeopardize-us-pharmaceutical-innovation-when-we-need-it-most\">strong patent rights play in U.S. pharmaceutical innovation<\/a>.\u00a0 Although the U.S. accounts for just 4% of the world&#8217;s population and 24% of the global economy, we account for an astonishing 2\/3 of new drugs introduced worldwide, as this helpful image illustrates perfectly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQKyUPtW27Vg4Byfd0qc-cjOIWgbhRwW9516l4eM1TtCjRZ3qcM\" alt=\"Patent Rights Protect U.S. Pharmaceutical Innovation Leadership\" width=\"271\" height=\"202\" \/> Patent Rights = Global Pharmaceutical Innovation Leadership<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strong patent protections, along with our more market-oriented approach, have made America the world leader in pharmaceutical innovation.\u00a0 At a moment like this amid the coronavirus pandemic, it&#8217;s more important than ever to protect that legacy and oppose misguided efforts by some in Congress to undermine it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Liberty Update this week, we emphasize the critical role that strong patent rights play in U.S. pharmaceutical innovation.\u00a0 Although the U.S. accounts for just 4% of the world&#8217;s population and 24% of the global economy, we account for an astonishing 2\/3 of new drugs introduced worldwide, as this helpful image illustrates perfectly: &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5101,1251,2871,2872,1442,4805],"class_list":["post-25531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-coronavirus","tag-drugs","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-patent","tag-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25531"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25540,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions\/25540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}