From ruben@mrbrklyn.com  Tue Dec 11 04:57:47 2001
From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:57:47 -0500
Subject: [Patents] Re: [fairuse-discuss] Fwd: James Love's Talking Points from the Cipro Patent Dispute
In-Reply-To: <3C1547D5.2359373@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>; from seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 18:40:05 -0500
References: <3C1547D5.2359373@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <20011210235747.E7002@www2.mrbrklyn.com>

Drug companies use their patents and discoveries against the public 
interest every day.


Ruben

>> 11.  The entire dispute is about how much risk we are willing to
>> undertake to protect the idea that patents are more important than
>> public health.  Thompson and others are rolling the dice, hoping we
>> don't need ciprofloxacin.  I hope they are right and we don't need
>> ciprofloxacin, but I don't think we should take unncessary risks with
>> the public health, and certainly not to make a polemical point over
>> patent rights.
>> 
>> 
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