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10 February 2013
Bayer Fights India's Compulsory Licensing Of Cancer Drug By Claiming It Spent $2.5 Billion Developing It
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Back in March last year, the Indian government announced that it was granting its first compulsory license , for the anti-cancer drug mar...
06 January 2013
Historic Ruling Against First Modern Drug Patent In India
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As Techdirt has reported over the last year, the Indian government is becoming increasingly keen on using cheaper, generic versions of i...
11 November 2012
After India, Now Indonesia Introduces Patent Licenses For Generic Versions Of Drugs
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As we noted a couple of weeks ago, when we wrote about India's moves to issue compulsory licences for the production of generic ver...
08 December 2011
Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents
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Of all the dysfunctional parts of the patent system, drug patents are arguably the worst, since the exorbitant prices that patent monopoli...
26 July 2011
Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents
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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been warning about the growing problem of patent thickets in the field of software for some ti...
06 June 2011
The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies
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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
26 September 2010
Sharing: Theft or Duty?
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I regard Matt Asay as one of the most perceptive commentators on the world of free software and related areas. So I was rather disappointed...
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28 November 2008
Patently Outrageous
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Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commissi...
03 November 2008
ACTA of Hypocrisy
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I've written several times about the mysterious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ), which is currently being negotiated behin...
06 November 2007
Beyond a Game
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Sixth Floor Labs LLC, a Linux game development company, has launched their business today. Founded by Ethan Glasser-Camp and Carl Li, the co...
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