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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
So what you're saying is this would benefit the drug companies and they should be embracing it?
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no of course not
i am saying that elimination of patents would create a new nash equilibrium that would create an economic insentive to increase testing.
Look now they have 25 years of monopoly profits and they have to do nothing to get it.
the new system would give them 10 years of monopoly profits and they would have to spend money to test all the possible drug interactions to make sure it was safe before they marketed it.
The second cost them money but benefits comsumers.
The plus side is that each development would be cheaper to make because you could use the previous sucess as base. this benefits all drug companies equally, while the current law benefits the older establish companies who have huge patent archives that they can use to stop competition by forcing them to re-invent the wheel to get their drugs to the market (wasting development money).
the establish companies want to protect the status quo. The status quo is the enemy of innovation.