My bad

Mylan is a company

i believe

FFS

yes it is, i was super confused

Yes they are

the reality is we have no real data about the costs of manufacturing and the RnD that went into the Epipen

But seriously, when a drug is less expensive in a poor country, it's because ... well, they're poor

All im saying is that if they removed the patent on the epipen someone will make a more affordable and better option in my opinion

buy from the poor make them rich

ehehe

@Kaladin honestly, the time itself depends on the company filing said patent although i assume the absolute max should be between 5 to 10 years

The orginial epipen used to cost 100 bucks

but the company said we want more money

they got what they wanted

@GotatoChi People my age know at LEAST one person that would make Xanax trips to Mexico in the 80s

because they have 0 competition

yea but if you remove the patent you're talking about using government influence to steal someone's intellectual property

@TheBlackRedneck wouldn't every thing from before seem cheaper due to inflation though?

thats an **extremely** slippery slope

Yes many things go into pricing. Regulations, taxes, production costs, acquisition of material cost etc.

you should be able to have a patent and be the only ones to sell something but if it is something that directly saves peoples lives they should have a law saying you can't sell for much more than cost of production

i would certainly never bother innovating in America if I knew the government could(and would if they deemed it necessary) confiscate my creation for the 'greater good'

aka socialism

@NorseWarrior You're correct. It's not some simple thing.

Listen, I definitely think that you couldn’t just get rid of patents. But I have to do a lot more research before I came to a conclusive decision on my own.

Im not saying get rid of all

patents

im just saying get rid of them

in medicine

in my opinion

that's still a terrible idea in my opinion that would result in chaos my dood

@TheBlackRedneck You're worse than the real OMB at this point 🤣 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0ftYbqnJWmc/maxresdefault.jpg

can they choose to not sell if people threaten to remove patents

Well I mean that’s what I was talking about I guess. I don’t think we could just get rid of them in medicine. But I totally get what you’re saying and I understand your points @TheBlackRedneck

and it would overall hurt innovation in medicine too, as i said before, nobody would have any motivation to create new medicines anymore if they knew the government might just up and decide to seize/remove their IP

Ok lets have an example

oh ffs

If I make a medicine

and get a patent on it

I'm the only one who can produce that medicine