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Originally posted by moorookamick:
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You have obviously never worked in the higher management end of manufacturing. IMO. Manufacturers continually take competitors' designes/techiques and copy them with just enough variation that, arguably, they are not infringing patent/IP Just look at the evolution of the global motor industry for example. The design of the internal combustion engine was taken by hundreds of emerging manufacturers , tweaked a little and then mass produced. Similarly with other key auto components. The Yanks did this wholesale from Germany, France and the UK in the early 20th C and then made a manufacturing success of it by economy of scale.(eg Henry Ford) This was followed by the Japs, Koreans and now the Chinese who are the biggest auto manufacturers in the world. Its fine and dandy to say a corporation is stealing another's patent/IP but its entirely another thing to prove it in an international court of law . Samsung-Apple discovered that in hi-tech recently incurring $hundreds of millions in legal costs And finally, propriety rights are a capitalist invention; so if you don't believe in capitalism, then why should abide by its rules? IMO medicines are at the forefront of patent/IP claims and of course the bottom line here is that the more successful a Pharma company can be in protecting its patents, the more the consumer has to pay for the protected product. Evidence: Last week I had to pay E360 ($600 our peso) in Europe for 30 pills of Covid antiviral medicine just because Pfizer owns the patent (at present) ; but I'm sure that the Chinese, Indians and Russians are copying it right now and for good reasons.
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PS: Our PPS uses mostly "generic medicines" also known as copies of the original drug to keep the cost of our medicines down in the same way that your local garage will use "will fit" parts from Taiwan, China , Indonesia or Thailand to minimise your car repair/servicing bill. China's advantage (like the uS in the 20s/30s is simply the economy of production scale and that is why they have over 30% of global manufacturing now and increasing