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11/20/12 5:04 PM

#10031 RE: iwfal #10030

Do drug companies conduct their time-consuming and expensive product development activities for the good of humankind or to make money? I’m going with money.

Unless the USSC decides to disagree with Jefferson’s well-known sentiment—“Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas”—they’re going to uphold patent rights.