National patent offices do not want to give up power and money.
Ever since Feldman founded National Patent in 1959, he has shown an almost comic flair for plucking failure from the jaws of success.
The European Parliament approved on first reading a law that would harmonise national patent legislation on genetic engineering , and would allow continent-wide patents for genetic inventions.
Europe's patent system is also in a mess in another regard: the quilt of national patent offices and languages means that the cost of obtaining a patent for the entire European Union is too high, a burden in particular on smaller firms and individual inventors.
The competitive outlook on patents is also troubling, as China has set a national goal of two million patent filings in 2015, about four times as many as the latest number of annual U.S. filings.
In here are copies (the National Archives keeps the originals) of every patent and trademark ever awarded.
Until the government was able to agree on a reduced price of 95 cents a tablet for 100 million tablets, there was discussion about whether and how Congress could invalidate Bayer Pharmaceutical's patent on Cipro in the interest of national security.
By contrast, China has developed a National Intellectual Property Strategy, aggressively targeting 2 million Chinese patent applications annually by 2015, spurring initiative and innovation with cash rewards, houses and tax breaks.
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The evidence of this can be seen almost everywhere life-cycle of products, number of patents filed in the US Patent Office, amount of cell phone activity across national boundaries on and on and on.
There are also potential national security repercussions - particularly if, as is likely under the "harmonized" patent system, China winds up being a principal beneficiary of expanded access to, and opportunities for exploitation of, American inventions.
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At its base, the claim is that there is an overriding ethical issue at stake: The national interest in affordable and available drugs to fight specific terrorist threats is greater than patent protections guaranteed by longstanding laws.
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