“As an organization, we’ve been working on the issue of patents and medicines for over 10 years and we have identified that unmerited patents can be a driver of high drug prices, particularly where they’re unnecessarily blocking drug competition,” Tahir Amin, co-founder and co-executive director of I-MAK told Healio.com/Hepatology. “Through our research we have identified a number of examples where the over-patenting situation on drugs is getting in the way of more access and more competition in the marketplace, which naturally results in morefold prices.”