A Yellow Book for Medical Devices—A Proposal for Public Health

This Viewpoint proposes that the US Food and Drug Administration create a patent database for medical devices, the Yellow Book, similar to the Orange Book’s database of drug-related patents.

Corresponding Author: David A. Simon, PhD, JD, LLM, Northeastern University School of Law, 416 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (d.simon@northeastern.edu).

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