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A digital medicine company tries to adopt pharma’s patent game. Will it work?

  • Rebecca Robbins

By Rebecca Robbins April 13, 2018

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A screenshot from one of Akili's video games. Akili Interactive Labs

In biopharma, patents are everything. In tech? Not so much.

Which is why it was unusual to see a company that’s trying to turn software into medicine announce this week that it’s bagged several patents.

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Rebecca Robbins

Rebecca Robbins

Health Tech Correspondent

Rebecca covers health technology. She is the co-author of the newsletter STAT Health Tech.

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