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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: Public Key Patents
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165703.21735@cas.org>
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- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1ebjbsINNgfv@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <PHR.92Nov19225721@napa.telebit.com> <1992Nov23.011349.11673@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:57:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.011349.11673@netcom.com> rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning) writes:
- >I believe that Fleming made the patent for penicillin public, which delayed
- >development for many years. No drug company wanted to invest the $
- >on development and clinical testing when anybody else could ride on
- >the investment and undercut their prices. A sure route to bankruptcy.
- >
- >This is a system design issue. You guys are argueing about waves,
- >not wave-generation mechanisms.
- >
-
- Of course he made the patent public. A patent is a public
- record of an invention. The claims describe an invention
- over which the inventor has the right to prevent anyone else
- practicing and therefore have to publicly described.
- The reason for the delay in the commercial development of
- penicillin was more likely the very mixed set of clinical
- trials.
-
- Alec Chambers
-