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EVENT ANALYTICS FOR INNOVATION                   Figure 5. First patent to FDA approval for 688 drugs.  The overview panel reveals that there are 6 main sequence patterns between these two events.  The predominant pattern, cov- ering nearly half the records, involves a period of patenting for several years followed by a gap and then followed by FDA approval.
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