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A century of reaping enormous profits at the expense of sickness and misfortune, 3

The Mayo doctors, having made their specific arguments with regard to salvarsan in their 1917 letter to Congress, end with a full scale plea, not only to cancel the patent for salvarsan but also for other German drugs, and for … Continue reading

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Negotiating a share of royalties under Bayh-Dole

[See the afterthought for something shorter and blunt and just as useless.] In his amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the Stanford v Roche case, former Senator Birch Bayh made an odd claim–that inventors had the right to negotiate … Continue reading

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Working through an old op/ed on university ownership of inventions

I was out browsing the web and came across an op/ed from 2011 published in the Baylor University magazine Lariat. The anonymous author was opining about the Stanford v Roche case and the title makes clear the position: “Patents should … Continue reading

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