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Has the US ever disallowed a patent because the company holding it refused to sell a product to the government at the price the government wanted? It's hard to
by harryh 10y ago
Has the US ever disallowed a patent because the company holding it refused to sell a product to the government at the price the government wanted? It's hard to imagine SCOTUS allowing that sort of thing. The US gov't is subject to its own laws.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoHas the US ever fought hard to institute a travel ban in order to prevent people of a certain religion from entering the country, despite judicial intervention. That's the thing about governments: they can do whatever they want. And your recourse is to deal with it or spend years fighting against it (or die in the streets fighting it, lest we forget that option). Disclaimer: I'm for breaking patents when necessary, although 3D printing drugs is around the corner making it a moot point. EDIT: @refurb: I love coming to HN and having people say "its too hard, it'll never be done". ;) I can run the laser sintering machine in my garage and build metal parts from a fine powder, parts that are aircraft grade, but I won't be able to 3D print drugs at home? No imagination.
- refurb 10y agoDisclaimer: I'm for breaking patents when necessary, although 3D printing drugs is around the corner making it a moot point. 3D drug printing is a pipe dream. The syntheses are way to complex to do at home. You'd be better of just having a CRO make the drug for you.
- refurb 10y agoLaser sintering is a known technology. 3D printing drugs is a buzz word and a technology that doesn't even exist. As a chemist I can tell you it's a pipe dream. Chemistry just doesn't work that way.
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- _Wintermute 10y agoYou're comparing printing simple metal structures from metal powder to synthesizing complex molecules from scratch? I think you might want to brush up on your chemistry before pinning your hopes on 3D printed drugs.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWhy it matters that the FDA just approved the first 3D-printed drug (2015) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/11/why-it-matters-that-the-fda-just-approved-the-first-3d-printed-drug/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/1... 3D printing of tablets containing multiple drugs with defined release profiles (2015) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517315300855 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517315... I can Google. You should Google before making a false blanket statement.
- _Wintermute 10y agoThat's 3D printing a pill. Nothing to do with synthesizing the active compound, and it not going to allow you cheaply produce drugs. The issue is creating the active compound, not putting it into pill form.
- pessimizer 10y agoIt's easy to imagine SCOTUS allowing such a thing, it's just hard to imagine the government doing it, or anything that restrains healthcare costs at the expense of healthcare companies.