Posted on 02/06/2020 7:05:07 AM PST by Zhang Fei
China has applied to patent a drug candidate being developed by Gilead Sciences as the government rushes to find the cure for the deadly coronavirus, a move that could raise questions on intellectual property and marketing rights.
The state-backed Institute of Virology in Wuhan filed the patent for using remdesivir to fight the novel coronavirus on January 21, according to a statement posted on its website two weeks later on February 4. If approved, the drug will be used to facilitate its potential global market entry, it added.
Studies have been conducted outside the human bodies and found that Gilead’s remdesivir compound and the off-patent chloroquine malaria drug are both “highly effective” in the control of coronavirus infection, the Wuhan institute and the Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology said in a research published in Cell Research Journal.
A spokeswoman for the Foster City, California-based company said it had invented remdesivir, and had filed patent applications for the compound and its uses against coronaviruses globally, including in China, in 2016. The application in China is still pending.
“We are aware of reports of the Wuhan Institute for Virology’s patent application,” said Sonia Choi, Gilead’s vice president of public affairs in a telephone interview with South China Morning Post. “Our focus at this time is on rapidly determining the potential for remdesivir as a treatment for [the novel coronavirus] and accelerating manufacturing in anticipation of potential future supply needs.”
Asked if Gilead will contest the patent application filed by the Chinese researchers, she said China’s “application has been filed more than three years after Gilead’s filing and will be considered in view of what is already known about the compound and pending patent applications. We are unable to comment on details of [their] application because there is an 18-month delay for
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A Communist China filing a Patent is ironic. They do not believe in Private Property Ownership.
Is this merely a Negotiating Tool?
They don’t respect our patents so why should we respect theirs?.............
Yup. But this is progress, they are acknowledging that concept of IP and at least trying the legal route.
They can’t patent what they didn’t invent, them’s the rulz.
No legitimate patent office would grant the patent, and no country would honor it.
ChiComs use patents as part of economic warfare.
They should patent the virus while they’re at it.
Pirbright Institute in the UK.
[A Communist China filing a Patent is ironic. They do not believe in Private Property Ownership.
Is this merely a Negotiating Tool?]
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/trump-xi-king-of-china-intl/index.html
China has been an absolutist tyranny for almost all of its existence, with regimes changing due to internal revolt to a degree probably unmatched by any other civilization. The “communist” regime was just another tyranny with a different nameplate. It tried on Marxism-Leninism for size because it was told (by the Russians) that way lay progress to Western economic power. Then it discovered that individual Chinese economic output was not only far behind - the gap was getting bigger. That was when it dissolved the planned economy that differentiated it from previous Chinese tyrannies. What it retains in common with those tyrannies is the right to take what it wants when it wants. That aspect isn’t unique to Chinese tyrannies - Edward I expelled the Jews to take their stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion
The difference is that the Chinese state retains these powers to this very day, whereas the English Crown’s powers are obviously much attenuated from what they were 800 years ago. It’s good to be king.
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“The state-backed Institute of Virology in Wuhan filed the patent for using remdesivir to fight the novel coronavirus on January 21....”
Yeah, but our civilization sucks and everyone is better than us, just ask a Leftist.
Tin foil hats at the ready!!
What if the whole thing is a ruse to get people to take a debilitating vaccine?
Is it odd that the outbreak is almost completely in China? Is the outbreak designed to get the rest of the world to vaccinate?
The whole episode reminds me of Genesis 30. When the son of Hamor the Hittite defiled Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, the sons of Jacob told the defilers that they would be acceptable to Jacobs family if they would only circumcise themselves. Doing so would bring them into alignment with Jewish customs.
The people of Hamor's city agreed. But as soon as they circumcised themselves, two of Jacob's sons killed them and plundered their city.
This comes to mind with the rumors that the coronavirus may be manmade.
Tin foil hats off!!
We ought to drop a nuke on Xi personally for knowing about this virus and letting all of those human vectors hop on planes to go infect the rest of the world.
“China has been an absolutist tyranny for almost all of its existence, with regimes changing due to internal revolt to a degree probably unmatched by any other civilization. The “communist” regime was just another tyranny with a different nameplate.”
Shortly after he arrived, I asked one of my father’s cousins what it felt like to be done with Communism and to live under a different system. His reply was: “Same wall, different wallpaper.” IOW, exactly what you just said about China and its dictatorships with different nameplates.
I don’t know if your family is from China originally, but if it is then we share a very common background, even given that our families lived thousands of miles from each other.
It reminds me of the plot of RAINBOW SIX by Tom Clancy.
Ayup.
It does!
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