Skirting patents on pharmaceutical drugs

I no longer spend much time thinking about the pharmaceutical industry, but until someone with more current knowledge stops by:

All of the above. A composition of matter protects production and use of a drug; it can also cover a class or an antibody clone. Drug targets are patentable but IIRC there are some limits that I’m not going to be able to clarify for you. Something something about Cox-2 inhibitors.