[JusticeJuice]

Serious question - what's stopping somebody reverse engineering the drug / figuring out how to make it, then producing it for much cheaper? Obviously it's not legal, but that's not going to stop somebody when they have potentially 300k a year to save.

[epmaybe]

Just off the top of my head, reversing a synthesis reaction seems expensive without knowing any reaction intermediates. Not to mention that the lawsuit you would get handed would be a slam dunk case for any lawyer.

That being said, other companies in countries that don't honor patents definitely do this very thing for chemotherapies and the like.