Patients, Patents, and Pharmaceutical Industry MCQ
Patients, Patents, and Pharmaceutical Industry MCQ
1. The acronym sludge helps identify the effects of ________ drugs on the autonomic nervous system.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Parasympathomimetic
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
2. Privacy is one way of protecting ourselves from physical, emotional, and economic harm. What level of security is this?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Personal
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
3. How did the Orphan Act encourage the pharmaceutical industry to invest in treatments for rare diseases?
Answer
Correct Answer:
By providing federal funding of grants
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
4. Why is cDNA patentable and DNA is not?
Answer
Correct Answer:
CDNA is not a product of nature.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
5. The ______ of natural DNA does not alter its inherent characteristics; isolated DNA remains a product of nature.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Purification
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
6. What is Valeant's defense on the cost of drugs?
Answer
Correct Answer:
It is appropriate to maintain high drug prices for maximum profits and to make it more difficult for generic manufacturers to gain access to drug formulations.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
7. What did Pfizer do when they heard doctors were less likely to prescribe new drugs if the cost was over $10,000?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Lowered the price of their drug to $9850 for profit
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
8. For a patented drug to be eligible for a new patent, the pharmaceutical company has to ______.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Modify the drug’s delivery mechanism
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
9. What does “patent cliff” mean to pharmaceutical industries?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Their product is no longer protected from competition.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
10. How did the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act change drug manufacturing?
Answer
Correct Answer:
By requiring labeling requirements and warnings
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
11. Which act did Congress pass that is dedicated to food safety and prohibits misbranding of drugs?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Wiley Act
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
12. What type of patent protects any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, or article of manufacture?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Utility
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
13. This term refers to major pharmaceutical companies dominating the sale and distribution of prescriptions.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Big Pharma
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
14. The pharmaceutical industry depends more heavily on patents to protect its ______ and thereby ensure a return on its investment.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Innovations
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
15. No matter what form of patent, the law requires ______ years before any other company may reproduce that patent.
Answer
Correct Answer:
20
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
16. A machine is an example of a ______.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Product patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
17. James, an employee of L&S Pharmaceuticals, creates a formula that changes the composition of specific drugs. What type of legal protection will he look for?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Process
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
18. What are the requirements for a patent to be granted?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Utility, new, and nonobvious
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
19. What are the three forms of patents?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Design, utility, and plant
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
20. What did the judge mean when he remarked “a patent is not a hunting license,” as he refused a patent?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Patents that have no useful results are not acceptable.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
21. A(n) ______ is a form of legal protection given to individuals who create an invention or process.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
22. For an original idea to be eligible for ______, it must be expressed in some tangible medium.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Copyright
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
23. What type of intellectual property would an author need to legally protect their book?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Copyright
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
24. How is nonrivalrous related to nonexclusive?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Both are public goods.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
25. Copyright, trademarks, and patents are three ways ______ property is legally protected.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Intellectual
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
26. Public goods are _____ objects.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Intangible
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
27. Which kind of property consists of intangible assets and objects?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Intellectual
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
28. Vertically integrated is the structure of a company that performs all value chain activities in house, from research and development to manufacturing and marketing?
Answer
Correct Answer:
True
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
29. Protection of any new, useful, and nonobvious process, machine, or article of manufacture is known as ?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Utility patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
30. ________(it is difficult or even impossible to exclude or “fence out” people)?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Nonexclusive
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
31. Protection of inventions or functional devices such as machines,__________, or “compositions of matter”
Answer
Correct Answer:
Articles of manufacture
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
32. Protection of a means of doing something is known as?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Process patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
33. The ______ expiration of patents on well-known blockbuster drugs?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Patent cliff
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
34. A ______ is a form of legal protection given to individuals who create an invention or process?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
35. _________ any intangible objects or assets (such as software programs, music, or books)?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Intellectual property
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
36. An attempt to “refresh” a patented product by making a modification to the drug’s delivery mechanism, its dosage, or other characteristics is known as ?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Evergreening
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
37. _______is a Protection of any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Design patent
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
