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From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
Subject: [Patents] Re: [fairuse-discuss] Fwd: James Love's Talking Points from the Cipro Patent Dispute
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:57:47 -0500
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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>> Consumer Project on Technology
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