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Protect the Tamiflu Patents!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:51:23 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <4whp () insightbb com> Date: November 6, 2005 9:48:40 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: andreas () andreas com Subject: Re: [IP] Protect the Tamiflu Patents! On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:32 -0500, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Andreas Ramos <andreas () andreas com> Date: November 3, 2005 3:05:51 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Protect the Tamiflu Patents! Reply-To: Andreas Ramos <andreas () andreas com> Dan Gillmor wrote the following about Tamiflu at his blog http:// bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor The Wall Street Journal is running a story that begins this way: "Recent, surprising reports that generic Tamiflu can be made quickly and easily may have important implications for the global supply of the drug, which is seen as a hedge against a bird-flu pandemic. The reports also raise questions about why Roche Holding AG, Tamiflu's maker, said it would take years for its rivals to copy the drug."
Interestingly, Roche didn't develop Tamiflu, but is producing it under license from Gilead, which notified Roche in July that they were terminating the license. Who is Gilead? They're a little R&D company you've probably never heard of, but you've surely heard of their former Chairman: Don Rumsfeld.http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/? source=aol_quote
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