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Comment by tptacek

3 hours ago

This only makes sense if you believe that the science leading to a disease cure occurs in exclusively one lab controlled by a giant pharma company, and not instead in dozens of labs in university biomedical programs around the country.

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ninetyninenine  2 hours ago

If it happened in dozens of labs… how the fuck does big pharma hold patents on certain drugs? The existence of a patent means the drug was developed and patented by one entity.

If a molecule, synthesis path, or mechanism has already been disclosed in the literature by multiple labs, then that is public prior art and it cannot be patented.

Therefore, If there were dozens of other researchers coming up with the same drug the patent is legally invalid.

So it seems you’re the one not making sense.