Originally posted by Lee
See now thats something i do feel very strongly about, medicine patents.

As far as *I* am concerned if a company has developed a medicine that will help people there is no reason it should be patented in my eyes, i can understand that these companies want to make oney from it but by patenting the medicines it then limits the effectiveness of any future developments to that medicine unless the company holding the patent decides to try and make it work better.

Regards,

Lee
Agreed, especially when much of the initial research for development of new medicines comes from taxpayer money anyway.

These companies spend very little (proportionately) on research and development, and much more on marketing - while they use the research angle as justification for increasing the time a drug can be patented.