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Re:Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block corona... by Hokusai on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:26PM (#22606587)
> Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

Is it Ok when it’s just tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds? At which number it becomes acceptable to abuse patents to sell overpriced medicines for the sick?

The system needs improvements. The pandemic is temporal. The injustice have been there for many years.

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Re:Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block corona... by pmiller2 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:43PM (#22606822)
I’m purposely not drawing an exact line. Nonetheless, when potentially hundreds of millions of lives are at stake globally, it’s safe to say we’ve crossed over into IP as a public good land.
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