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A comment on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake. Parent comment

Re:Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake by foxglacier on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:30AM (#45640367)
Don't be so quick to assume it was a failure not intentional. One of the comments in the article suggests it could have been to avoid PMPRB which is price control for patented drugs.
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Re:Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake by PerryUlysses on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:14AM (#45642186)
The company said it was intentional, probably because of the reason you mentioned: “In a statement to Fortune, Novo Nordisk said there was no mistake regarding its patent maintenance fee in Canada.”
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Re:Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake by Scoundreller on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:44AM (#45644498)
I still don’t get that though: is that worth losing exclusivity over?

I guess they think some other production patent will let them maintain exclusivity without it being a patent on the drug itself?

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