Hopefully more incidents like this will prompt people to question whether granting patents are actually useful to society or not.
Patents are after all an artificial (and supposedly temporary) monopoly enforced by society on behalf of a private entity, because society deems the value of this protection will create something beneficial to society as large.
Using patents to bump prices of existing, already profitable medicines hardly seems what patents were made for.
Patents are after all an artificial (and supposedly temporary) monopoly enforced by society on behalf of a private entity, because society deems the value of this protection will create something beneficial to society as large.
Using patents to bump prices of existing, already profitable medicines hardly seems what patents were made for.