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In article <8229@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>Large companies have been monopolizing the pharmaceutical market, and
>their research is often funded by the U.S. government.  Patent remedies are
>be necessary in order to put drugs into the hands of more of the
>people who need them.
	I think this would be a big mistake: why would drug companies
spend mega-bucks on research if they can't recoup their investment (its
usually quite trivial to analyze what substances are used in a drug,
and to duplicate it, the cost of research lies in finding what drug
will work, and (especially!) in having the FDC regulators declare it
safe)?  You mentioned AIDS, but I can assure you that if medical
patents were lifted it would only prolong the delay before an AIDS
cure is discovered.
	Ron

(Consider cross-posting with a follow-up elsewhere, since some of the
substantive issues between medical patents and software patents differ).