6.17.2016

But not the kind of deviants you might think

Mr. Modi, Don't Patent Cow Urine - The New York Times

"A recent Plos One study found that about 36 percent of all new drugs approved in the United States between 1988 and 2005 were protected solely by secondary, or trivial, patents.

"This, being precisely what Indian law prohibits, has made India a fixture of the 'Priority Watch List' of the U.S. Trade Representative’s Special 301 Report, a kind of most-wanted roster of the world’s intellectual-property deviants."

No comments: