[Ip-health] Bill Gates:

Thu Apr 24 22:26:01 2008

I feel absolutely safe in asserting with no fear of contradiction that
there is no drug "invention" in which public funds are not involved, and
to an overwhelmingly significant degree in each and every case. The myth
of private invention is just that, and yet of course the patent system is
premised on social facts that existed, if at all, only in the early 18th
century when the system was initially conceived.

MD
> Michael, Jamie and all,
>
>   In that Bill has a significant investment in drug stocks,
> it is no small surprise that he takes this possition.  Frankly
> given his history, this argument he suggests is at a minimum,
> disengenous if not intentionally misleading.  Ergo, I take his
> remarks on many things with a huge grain of salt accordingly.
>
>   Certainly if any drug company invents any drug it should
> be able to charge for them.  But if public funds are involved
> in the development in those drugs invented, how much and under
> what pricing circumstances becomes a matter of public interest
> as well as public safty and health.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: "Prof. Michael H. Davis" <michael.davis@law.csuohio.edu>
>>Sent: Apr 24, 2008 12:27 PM
>>To: james.love@keionline.org
>>Cc: ip-health@lists.essential.org
>>Subject: Re: [Ip-health] Bill Gates:  "I think if you invent drugs, you
>> should be able to  charge for them"
>>
>>What about if we ALL invent drugs as we do with all of them through
>> funded research? Do we all get our money back? Do we all share in the
>> profits? Gates is assuming a private sector in the most heavily
>> subsidized area of our economy.
>>
>>
>>Mickey Davis
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James Love <james.love@keionline.org>
>>Date: Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 3:01 pm
>>Subject: [Ip-health] Bill Gates:  "I think if you invent drugs, you
>> should be able to  charge for them"
>>To: Reply-    james.love@keionline.orgTo: ip-health
>> <ip-health@lists.essential.org>
>>
>>This is from a wired story two days ago.  Jamie
>>>
>>>http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/bill-gates-what.html
>>>
>>>The core problem seemed to intrigue Gates, who offered it as "a
>>>paradox": If a drug company ever invents a treatment for something like
>>>malaria, it'd be immediately beset by calls to give the drug away. "So
>>>they choose never to work in those areas," he noted sympathetically.
>>>"The current incentive system isn - t doing it."
>>>
>>>"I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them," he
>>>said, adding with a shrug: "That may seem radical."
>>>
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