kittyinboots

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Patents should never be awarded for life saving drugs. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] kittyinboots@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree. If the patent was never filed the compound is hard to reverse engineer. Even then it has to go to drug trials.

As I stated before most of the research is done by researchers. And drug companies mostly spend on advertising and lobbying and executive pay compared to the money spent on research.

Patents should never be awarded for life saving drugs. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] kittyinboots@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The root of this issue is just having patents for those drugs and not allowing generic drug makes manufacture drugs that are a lot more affordable.

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Patents should never be awarded for life saving drugs. (lemmy.world)
 

While I support IP for individuals, I don’t support it for large companies and definitely not for drug companies.

I understand the money involved in making drugs, but you should not be able to monopolize a life saving drug and charge exorbitant money for it. Most of the initial drug research is done by scientists not associated with drug company.