Here is a citation:

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In the article Patent Protection Strategies (J Pharm Bioallied Sci), Gupta et al., discuss several of these strategies and examples of companies using them. Creating new, more efficacious formulations of drugs is a very common strategy to extend pharmaceutical patent life. Lilly created a new once weekly formulation of Prozac when it faced pharmaceutical patent expiration. BMS redesigned a once daily long acting version of metformin known as Glucophage XR when it faced pharmaceutical patent expiration.
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I don't believe the old patent just "expires" since it is the base for the new one.

Dont forget the magical "reformulation" trick to extend the terms as well. "this is not the same drug, this is the super-time-release formula model 29" and should be treated as a new drug with a new term.

Where are my mod points when i need them?

If it is blocked, how did he use it to apologize?

Food for thought: What makes you think they want to sell them to the west, or that they even can? Anything you have ever purchased from China was most likely via a "middle man" (made in China, sold to you by a non-Chinese company under their label). Go ahead, list off a few Chinese manufacturing firms you purchased products from.

In china, there are two markets. Made in China for sale in China, and Made in China but for export. If this is some "made in china for sale in china" why do they care what the west says? Why does the west care to "catch them"?

Lastly, perhaps "the west" should focus on catching the data theft and other crimes occurring locally and focus on others less?

Small in the sense that how do you justify so many sports stadiums for that population?

Just a boondogle, the leafs wont play in the old stadium, nor will they build a new one when they can just get the taxpayers to do it.

They can also do what Toronto, Ontario did with its skydome.
Taxpayer funded cost of construction: $570 million
Sale price to private corporations: $151 million

So yeah, i can see how the taxpayers might want something after taking a $400 million dollar loss. The kicker is this is not the only "stadium" for such a small city.

A lot of sports is all about taxpayer subsidies and huge player salaries.

If a robot does it, who gets to claim the credit?

Answering your linux question, yes my linux computer is safe if i give someone my root password because many linux distro's dont allow direct root login.

"By default, the Root account password is locked in Ubuntu. This means that you cannot login as Root directly or use the su command to become the Root user. "

Perhaps you can define exactly what it means to "jailbreak" an iDevice? Seems you do something to gain "root" access? Remember when simply going to a website would root your phone?

It is not uncommon for Apple fans to think that everyone else got their idea from Apple, but it is often very far from the truth.
Case in point, you state MS got the idea from OS X back in 2001. How do you explain MS offering beta versions of "windows 95" in 1994?

" Prior to the official release, the American public was given a chance to preview Windows 95 in the Windows 95 Preview Program. For US$19.95, users were sent a set of 3.5-inch floppy diskettes that would install Windows 95 either as an upgrade to Windows 3.1x or as a fresh install on a clean computer. Users who bought into the program were also given a free preview of The Microsoft Network (MSN), the online service that Microsoft launched with Windows 95. "

PS, the public beta of OS X was "Cheetah" released September 13, 2000 for US$29.95
So 6 years later and $10 more then MS win 95.

I have 5 android tablets in my house (two for myself, and one for each of my kids).

Two things I'd like to share:
1) The kids have NEVER liked reading off any tablet (not the kindle, not the nook and not the samsung galaxy's). They are avid readers, but physical books only and I can't convince them otherwise.
2) Speaking about posting without having a clue at all... Your "tethered to Google" seems to fit the bill for posting without any idea what you are talking about.

Bonus: the kids did create accounts in google play without a credit card with ease as they wanted to grab a few apps.

Extra points for your use of "dead trees" to describe physical books. It was just as cool in 2004 as it is now.

It is my (limited) understanding that Teachers in China are not unionized and can be fired fairly easily for poor performance.

Didn't apple just recently agree to pay like $400 million as a settlement for price fixing ebook prices?
So on top of the price of the device, there is also the artificial ebook prices?

Care to cite some examples of people actually creating content on the iPad in the real world? Most of the people i see with them are playing games or watching video's (consumption).

So, using the post right above yours...

https://www.libreoffice.org/
http://www.linuxmint.com/
http://www.gimp.org/


how are any of these quality apps tracking, selling my data or any of the other nonsense you posted?

They say they are "free" and they don't beg for money every time you use them.
They do have a donate page on them, but you are free click "not now" and contniue to download it.
How hard is it to post something that is not free as "freemium" or "in app purchases" instead of free?

"As I said, levels of ignorance."

What does this even mean? people are ignorant when "free" games beg for money and this is not 'false advertising'?

Normally i have a bias towards China as a lot of people post things which are just factually inaccurate.
For your post, clearly you are not being serious?
China - Fantastic history going back a very long time, but unfortunately does not contain many successful "conquests".

They are far more likely to stay within their own nation.

OMG, please list some examples of my "lack of parenting"?

You seem to be on a crusade to slander every parent on here, despite you clearly knowing NOTHING about them to protect corporate profits at the expense of vulnerable members of society. This makes zero sense. Long ago they removed child labor laws, and changed the rules to protect children from being taken advantage of.

Kids are not adults, they can not be expected to make sound decisions which is specifically why they have different rules around them.

Before you respond back with an additional attack, please clearly state how i "lack parenting" and be precise, no vague ambiguities.

Let me help you. I have three kids, one has an android based phone with NO CC attached. She comments from time to time that some of the games "constantly beg" for money even they they stated they were free.
Said daughter's lowest grade is B+ and if she wants to play some android game for 15 minutes on the bus i dont see any issues.

What was the point of the "age appropriate" system if companies sneak in grubbing for money which isn't age appropriate?