Donald Trump can Tame the Big Pharma Monster by Reforming Compound Claims Patent Law
Me thinks he has the will, and the balls, to do it, too!!!
Stop Big Pharma Gaming Patent Laws and Save Millions of Lives
The following is taken from a petition I raised in 2017. Years before, I had concluded, and written about how big pharma companies shed all their physical assets to gamble on patented molecules, presenting them with blockbuster monopoly profits (as depicted by the guy in the cartoon):
“Pharmaceutical patent laws are archaic, and they’re unashamedly gamed by pharmaceutical companies. The big pharma companies apply for patents on the ‘idea’ that one molecule 'might' treat a disease. No proof needed, merely a rough idea. In fact, only one in every 250 drugs that enter development are approved for sale. That means of the $2.6 billion big pharma claims it take to develop a drug, around $2 billion is wasted.
Not me saying that, it's the US Government Accountability Office, in its Report: