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To: RMF who wrote (36566)	8/27/2009 12:59:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) of 71588

IMO our misguided 'corporate welfare' leaning patent law provisions in this area are one of the main reasons the US pays 1/2 of all the world's spending on pharmaceuticals - despite having only 5% of the world's population. We let 'me-too' patents of dubious scientific validity be issued all the time... for such froo-frah as changing the color of the capsule, or changing one of the inert 'filler' ingredients that go into the pill. I've got absolutely no problem at all with any company that does innovative research and comes up with big improved treatments for disease or, dare we hope!... even an actual God's honest CURE for some condition (but that's far more rare then what most of our drug patents are issued for, which is more likely to be a marketing 'innovation', or a 'take-a-pill-a-day-to-control-but-not cure-this' financial annuity for the Big Pharma company....) In short, our system of patenting in this area is counter-productive and corrupted and serves the interests of corporate welfare far more then it does the interests of medicine of the nation's health....

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