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2004-09-29 China-Japan-Koreas

Pfizer continues patent fight [against theft] in China

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Posted by Zenster 2004-09-29 3:47:57 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just give it to them, Pfizer. Sure, you stand to lose money. But think of all the tigers and rhinos you'll save when people don't have to make their 'nads into soup anymore.

Posted by BH 2004-09-29 10:32:47 AM|| 2004-09-29 10:32:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting.

Unlike Hollywood or the auto industry, Pfizer like most Big Pharma companies derives the vast majority of its operating profits from only one or two blockbuster drugs. If they can't protect their blockbuster patents, they go out of business. Doubt we/Pharma will back down on this one.

Posted by lex 2004-09-29 10:38:51 AM|| 2004-09-29 10:38:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, revealing the secret is pretty much SOP for any patent. That's the whole purpose: to have a limited time monopoly in exchange for eventual public-domain knowledge.

Of course, that is talking about a reasonably honest government. That doesn't apply in the PRC.

Posted by jackal 2004-09-29 4:06:00 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-09-29 4:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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