Merck & Co.

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Public Policy Statement | February 2024
Intellectual property

As a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company, Merck works to save and improve
lives around the world by inventing breakthrough medicines and vaccines and by striving
to make them available and affordable to those who need them. Strong intellectual
property (IP) systems are the cornerstone of innovation, catalyzing the investment
needed to embark on the long, costly, and high-risk process of developing new and
improved...