A lot of the company's top-selling drugs were going off patent.
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come/go off patent — ► if a product comes off patent or goes off patent, the period of time for which someone has the patent for it comes to an end: »A lot of the company s top selling drugs were going off patent. Main Entry: ↑patent … Financial and business terms
go off patent — come/go off patent ► if a product comes off patent or goes off patent, the period of time for which someone has the patent for it comes to an end: »A lot of the company s top selling drugs were going off patent. Main Entry: ↑patent … Financial and business terms
patent — the granting by a government of monopoly rights to the owner of an invention to manufacture and sell it for a certain number of years, conditional on the owner being willing to immediately reveal the ideas incorporated in the invention, so that… … Financial and business terms
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