About the Authors

Amy Kapczynski

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Kapczynski, Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat

Affiliation Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Chan Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Kapczynski, Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat

Affiliation Medicines Patent Pool, Geneva, Switzerland

Bhaven Sampat

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Kapczynski, Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat

bns3@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: BS AK CP. Wrote the paper: BS AK CP. Coding of patents: AK CP.