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Old 03-11-2009, 06:39 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo View Post
I was saying that drugs period shouldn't be rushed regardless of patent or not. I don't care if there is a patent or not on it. I don't know why a drug would be treated differently by the FDA whether it has a patent or not.
but you are using that as an excuse to justify giving drug companies ever increasing patent life

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but I don't want to see drugs rushed out the door without proper testing because a company is afraid of someone else using their innovation for profit.
strict testing rules are more than enough to stop that anyway, you don't need to give them a longer patent life to do that.
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