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How do you plan to eventually bring your compound to market without IP rights? As I'm sure you know, clinical trials are very expensive, and investors expect IP
by shoyer 13y ago
How do you plan to eventually bring your compound to market without IP rights? As I'm sure you know, clinical trials are very expensive, and investors expect IP rights to guarantee a return on their investment.
- dnautics 13y agoVery good question. The uncomfortable thing for me to admit is that there is no plan yet (otherwise I'd have done it as a for-profit company). I have several ideas about how it might happen. It could start off as a veterinary drug. Clinical trials might happen in a country where it's less expensive. A brave generics company could stump for it anyway. There is no ROI guaranteed with ANY compound (100 different ways it could fail), and not being IP'd doesn't mean you 'don't get a ROI', it means you have to work harder, be more patient, and be more of a manufacturing badass to get that ROI. I'm trying to stack the deck here - the compound is natural product-inspired (which empirically means the likelihood of working is higher), and it should be relatively easy to manufacture.