Patents
The world is desperate for a COVID-19 vaccine – and more than 20 biotech and pharmaceutical companies are working round-the-clock to deliver in 2021. These companies should be able recover all costs for the time, effort and resources they are pouring into developing safe and effective treatments for the virus, but should they be allowed to profit from the pandemic? More specifically, should they be allowed to patent their discoveries? When Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine in the 1950s, he was asked who owned the patent. His answer: ‘There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?’
— Wayne Visser
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