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US Calls Out Japan’s Market Expansion Re-Pricing Rules as “Unfair”: IP Report

By Ken Yoshino May 26, 2026
The US government has singled out Japan’s annual drug price revisions and market expansion re-pricing scheme as problematic from an intellectual property protection standpoint, according to the latest Special 301 Report. In its annual review of global IP protection and…

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