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So the chemist and his friend had the exact same disease and it was successfully treated and they wouldn't release it because it could be made by someone else?

So the chemist and his friend had the exact same disease and it was successfully treated and they wouldn't release it because it could be made by someone else? Uh a recipe can be patented and that protects it from being sold. Compounding pharmacies can't magically ignore those patents if they don't want to get sued into oblivion or lose their license. I'm kind of skeptical of your story, sorry.

gumby 5y ago
It’s not really practical to sue a thousand small businesses — you might not even hear about them. And anyway it’s better to go after a product with a protected high margin than try to fight where somebody else can attack your margin. BTW it wasn’t “the chemist and his friend” — that would have been a crime. It was a few chemists in the company dosing themselves — also technically illegal but done all the time and generally excused if it’s a trivial scale and disclosed in your filings. Feel free to be skeptical but those are the business issues.