US threatens India's access to medicine in response to India's attempt to make cancer medication aff

[Harnbrand]

You know what the Indian ruling was? That patents couldn't be renewed on medications by changing one minor ingredient or gene (or quantity thereof) after the original patent on the medicine had expired. Which they do with no problem at all in the US, fucking everyone who needs affordable medicine up the ass because corporations can make more off something they invented twenty years ago.

The Indian ruling is reasonable. The US response isn't.

Ergo, fuck 'em.

[JustExtreme]

Exactly they were clearly abusing their position

[Lord Fear]

[QUOTE=wraithcat;42314535]Because without any protection you would utterly get swept over by richer companies. If there's nothing to block them from just taking your products, funneling in more cash and into a bigger market, they would.

You really need to realise at the sheer size and scale bigger corporations can possible have and unless you already have a trojan horse of some kind in, you will never get to be large enough to have an impact of any kind before someone whips it from under you.

There's also a reason why author rights are different from inventor rights in that inventor ones are directly applicable.

as to mom and pop stores + hand made goods - we're behind that system because the system is slow and not effective. Most of all because the speed and scale in which we transmit information has massive increased due to the radio, tv and lastly the internet. The situation today is completely different from the situation 50 years ago, let alone a hundred or more.[/QUOTE]

I hope you are aware that today you need to be a big rich company to get a patent right? It costs A LOT to get a patent. And when you have it, you also need to be able to fight it in court if someone infringes it.

Patents were designed to protect the smaller man from the big companies. But today, it's used by big companies to prevent smaller companies from getting bigger or to fight eachother.

Patents doesn't work anymore. The idea might've been good, but no matter how you twist and turn and modify the patent laws they will be abused. So the only sensible thing would be to remove it all together.

There was a paper released from research done into what would happen if patents were removed, trying to find it.

[cqbcat]

No wonder this country is fucked. The government is actively suppressing cheaper healthcare.

They says it's called Obamacare, but more like Idon'tcare.