Most big Western firms are already present in these countries, selling their patented products.
Today, we all use patented products and services imagined as only science fiction just twenty years ago.
FORBES: Policy Debates On Patents Should Focus On Facts, Not Rhetoric
At issue is whether federal law blocks the reproduction of patented products without compensation to an original inventor.
Counter-detailers reportedly inform doctors that older drugs or less expensive generics can be as or more effective in treating some conditions than newer, patented products.
Among the casualties were two much-touted economic reform bills, one to open insurance to competition and foreign investment, the other to curb piracy of patented products.
But the pharmaceutical companies counter that they need to preserve longer the billions of dollars in revenue from their patented products in order to recover the billions they spend developing new drugs.
The case essentially means that U.S. patent law does not apply overseas and that firms selling products patented in the U.S. must obtain a patent in each country where the patented item is sold.
Mr Vasella claims that big buyers, such as Wal-Mart in America and health-care providers in emerging markets, want to be able to buy a full range of patented and generic products from one supplier.
"The dispute concerns both Ericsson's patented technology that is essential to several telecommunications and networking standards used by Samsung's products as well as other of Ericsson's patented inventions that are frequently implemented in wireless and consumer electronics products, " Ericsson said in a statement.
But since these products can be patented (and many face little competition), companies can charge prices hundreds of times higher than those for the old type of vaccine.
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Many firms have donated products or lowered prices for existing patented medicines.
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The patents case encompassed 14 products that Apple said Samsung had used Apple patented designs in.
Software has a much shorter commercial life than traditional patented inventions, and is often built on top of earlier products.
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The company offers its customers an array of portable storage and office products in varying lengths and widths with differentiated features such as patented locking systems, premium doors, electrical wiring and shelving.
Because products such as an iPhone or BlackBerry typically include hundreds of patented items, the makers of these goods are frequently targeted for patent infringement by so-called "patent trolls, " companies hold patents so they can make money simply by enforcing them.
Such products can go on and on: Applause's Raggedy Ann dolls were patented in 1915.
Hopefully, as the FTC and DOJ hold more workshops, they will follow this example, abandoning rhetoric and instead calmly investigating how the patent system produces dynamic innovation, not just in products and services, but also in the many new business models that arise from this patented innovation itself.
FORBES: Policy Debates On Patents Should Focus On Facts, Not Rhetoric
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