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To attack costs, Lilly accelerates R&D

With President Barack Obama looking to squeeze a bit more revenue out of the pharmaceutical industry, the stakes just keep
getting higher for Eli Lilly and Co.’s efforts to develop drugs faster and cheaper.

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Perils of non-family managers

A former Toyota exec blasts non-family managers for the company’s problems. Are some Indianapolis-area companies better-
or worse-off after families relinquished control?

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Lilly asks shareholders to lower takeover barrier

Eli Lilly and Co. directors have recommended that shareholders toss out the
drugmaker's most potent protection against unwanted takeovers: an 80-percent supermajority vote threshold for any shareholder
mutiny to succeed.

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Pfizer’s Viagra patent partially rejected in Lilly fight

The patent on impotence drug Viagra was partially rejected after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said it wasn’t different
enough from a Chinese herb known as Horny Goat Weed. The patent was key to an infringement suit Pfizer filed in 2002 against
Eli Lilly and Co. over its rival Cialis drug.

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