[BlazingArizona]

“So they have a patent on this drug? You want to end the patent system?”

Sorry for being unable quote the actual article, but apparently we can’t quote the largest newspaper in Arizona because of - guess what - that intellectual property bat guano.

The patent on Anascorp is held by a Mexican lab which has sold it in Mexico for years at a retail of about $100 per dose. The FDA granted a small US company exclusive right to sell in this country in return for it doing the testing necessary to qualify it here. This is the same reason why the colchicine you have been taking for your arthritis for years is now $15 per pill, up from ninety cents.

Wouldn’t the straightforward way to qualify an existing drug in the US simply be to hire the work done at a tiny fraction of the cost? Someone is getting a fat payoff under the present system.

So to answer your question: hell yes! I’ve finally come to the conclusion that just ripping the whole intellectual property system out by the roots before it stifles the whole US economy is perhaps the only way to save us. Works for China, doesn’t it?

[exDemMom]

I’ve finally come to the conclusion that just ripping the whole intellectual property system out by the roots before it stifles the whole US economy is perhaps the only way to save us. Works for China, doesn’t it?<

It works...if you don't consider the development of new drugs at all important. I think many drug companies wouldn't survive losing their patent protection, which both allows them to recoup their development costs and develop new drugs. Then drug manufacturing could end up shifting to China and other countries where there are severe quality control issues.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“ripping the whole intellectual property system out by the roots”

That’s no different from a leftist who can only see his own needs when deciding what is good for everyone else. I’m reminded of ‘forgive all student loans now’.

We have seen unprecedented innovation since the introduction of patents, because PEOPLE CAN KEEP THE FRUITS OF THEIR OWN ENDEAVOURS for 20 years, which is the lifetime of a patent. Then that thing becomes public property.

What you are advocating is nothing less that intellectual communism. You would destroy the engine of progress because you want something cheap and you don’t want the inconvenience of going to Mexico to get it cheaper.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“we can’t quote the largest newspaper in Arizona”

Yes we can. We can take fair use cips as with anywhere. FR has decided not to in cases like this, where they are militant about it, in exchange for an easier life.

Militant litigiousness, not IP, is the problem.

See previous post - please consider carefully before replying out of pride.