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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 31, 2008, 04:11:58 am ---But it's totally simple-minded.  In order to come to that conclusion, you have to look at his company as though it exists in a vacuum.  It doesn't.  His company exists in the same world that Jdurg's company exists in.  And Jdurg's company doesn't have the leading treatment for the CF infection business.  boykster's does.  so Jdurg's company would like nothing more than to come up with a cure for CF, cos they'd like to get a piece of the CF pie that boykster's company has been hogging to themselves.

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So Boykster's company develops the cure, determines that it is far less profitable than the treatment... patents the cure... and then sits on it.  The patent prevents anyone else from using that method of cure yet the cure does exist.  If one is connected enough, and connections equal cash in this world, one manages to get a hold of the cure via black market means.

This is just as plausible, though not likely, because of the public nature of patents.  Someone would eventually notice and the media would have a field day.

RayB:
Welp, I just saw a certain episode of South Park and now know where myntik1 got his idea/question from. (Should have just cited your source from the start myntik1 !  ;) )

myntik1:
The funny thing is the old lady loves South Park, but I never watch the show.  I lost interest after the April fool's fiasco a decade ago.  So I may think along the same lines are the writing staff from time to time, but it didn't come from them. 

ChadTower:

I loved it when it first came out - felt fully betrayed (and on way too many substances that night) when the identity of Cartman's father was revealed.  They promised to show that episode for like three weeks in a row and then didn't.  Then whey they finally did, and the answer was so ridiculously lame, and (I was at UMass) were so effed up, we all pretty much swore off the show.  Never really did get back into it.

boykster:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 31, 2008, 11:41:44 am ---
So Boykster's company develops the cure, determines that it is far less profitable than the treatment... patents the cure... and then sits on it.  The patent prevents anyone else from using that method of cure yet the cure does exist.  If one is connected enough, and connections equal cash in this world, one manages to get a hold of the cure via black market means.

This is just as plausible, though not likely, because of the public nature of patents.  Someone would eventually notice and the media would have a field day.

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And the patent protection would expire, so that 'protection' would be fleeting and would be developed by another competing company.  Thats exactly how the generics market works; they keep tabs on what pharmaecuticals are due to go off patent, start their own development on those compounds and are ready to get to market when the patent expires. 

If my company patented the "cure", our monopoly on treatment vs cure would be fleeting and only last a couple of years.  It is possible for companies to get patent exclusivity extensions on pharmaceuticals they are actively selling, but no way on something their sitting on.

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