That may be so for the short term, and certainly inside national boundaries, but I don't think the "rich countries own all of the ideas" thing is going to be a

That may be so for the short term, and certainly inside national boundaries, but I don't think the "rich countries own all of the ideas" thing is going to be a sustainable global equilibrium state. This will become the norm: http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaids-drug.html http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaid...