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How do other countries patent systems compare with the US'? Can inspiration for changes be drawn from them or are they just as bad/worse? I ask because I only e
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
How do other countries patent systems compare with the US'? Can inspiration for changes be drawn from them or are they just as bad/worse? I ask because I only ever hear of trolling in the US system.
- transfire 12y agoI know of one important distinction between the US and India with regards to medicine patents. In India you can only patent the means of making a medicine, not the medicine itself. So if you can come up with a substantially different way of making the same thing you have equal rights to it.
- rayiner 12y agoThis is a good law for India, because they have the capability to manufacture medicine, while lacking the capability to invent them. It's one of the many ways the world freeloads on U.S. medical R&D spending.
- rofl1234 12y ago> lacking the capability to invent citation needed
- rayiner 12y agoNew drug development in India is in its infancy: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/09/piramal-exits-drug-discovery-india http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/09/piramal-exits-drug... ("This admission reflects the view that Indian drug companies are finding it difficult to develop successful new molecules. Discovering new drugs requires huge investment, and has not been favourably looked upon by risk-averse Indian investors. Several Indian molecules have failed in the clinic, including Piramal’s head and neck cancer candidate P276 in 2012. Even the antimalarial Synriam (arterolane and piperaquine), which Ranbaxy hailed as India’s first domestically developed drug, was originally discovered elsewhere.")