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patent monopolies and other inefficiencies. We review the positive theory of innovation in health care, as it relates to the … intellectual property, including patent races, cumulative or sequential innovation, and the implications of health insurance. We …Intellectual property rights are viewed as essential to medical innovation, but very often involve social costs due to …