Comments on: When Patents Are Not a Monopoly Strong Enough… http://techrights.org/2009/08/06/pharmas-government-granted-monopoly/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Jose_X http://techrights.org/2009/08/06/pharmas-government-granted-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-71873 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:24:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16186#comment-71873 >> While I tend to support pharma patents because of the huge research costs versus small manufacturing costs

The research costs are unavoidable only to the extent they require expensive machinery/materials/etc. As far as computer processing and human power, there are many ready to lend a hand there (with nonprofit and profit motives).

Manufacturing drugs certainly has costs compared to say manufacturing/distributing software. However, the mark up is also very high for the pills.

]]> By: aeshna23 http://techrights.org/2009/08/06/pharmas-government-granted-monopoly/comment-page-1/#comment-71872 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:09:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16186#comment-71872 While I tend to support pharma patents because of the huge research costs versus small manufacturing costs, this “biosimiliar” idea is going to be a total quagmire and benefit only the lawyer-parasites. You don’t need much beyond a basic notion of Biology to know that it is going to be a quagmire. It’s quite annoying to me when laws are passed in ignorance of the basic facts.

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