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DB:


What you'd want to target, are the ones with many patents - not the generic drug producers.

I'm sure there are lists, somewhere, over which companies spend the most money on research (= most patents as a rule of thumb).

Here's a list of some of the absolute biggest ones:

Pfizer
Merck
Eli Lilly
Bristol Meyers Squibb (leading provider of anticancer drugs)
Novartis
Glaxo
Astra Zeneca
Roche
Schering-Plough
Amgen
Genentech
Biogen-Idec

Those would be what I'd stick with (and they include a couple of "small" speculative, but highly interesting co's in the biotech field).
Notice that I left out Procter and Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and other big "generic" producers.

KD