Treatment Action Campaign
The Boys from Brazil
IPN Opinion article
It is precisely this kind of double-morality -- a disdain for property rights in name of supposedly helping the sick -- that is discouraging innovation in this sector. The patent-protection regimes in the developed world are a compromise between the need for innovation and the need for competition, providing a limited period of monopoly control over the intellectual property. The recent moves to undermine that compromise in South Africa and elsewhere are destroying the incentive to innovate in AIDS treatment.
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Ending patents not the cure
IPN Opinion article
\"The problem with the ending of patent protection, though, is that in the long term we all lose, especially those in developing countries. And that will be the outcome if the pharmaceutical companies fail in their attempt starting on March 5 in Pretoria High Court to overturn legislation that allows patent-breaking anti-AIDS drugs to be imported from India...\"
Ending patents not the cure
IPN Opinion article
\"The problem with the ending of patent protection, though, is that in the long term we all lose, especially those in developing countries. And that will be the outcome if the pharmaceutical companies fail in their attempt starting on March 5 in Pretoria High Court to overturn legislation that allows patent-breaking anti-AIDS drugs to be imported from India...\"
