Try that in any other creative endeavor and it gets labeled "outright theft of intellectual property."
Recently some Thai animators, created a nearly identical replica of Beauty and the Beast. Oh the horrors!!! Disney's patent on Beauty and the Beast would have run out long ago.[1] This knockoff would be totally legal if it were a drug. If so, you could buy it at Walmart for $4.
[1] yes, it was released in 1991, but I'm sure the testing and development started years before.
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It's okay. Disney stole the storyline nearly word-for-word from Robin McKinley's retelling of the Beauty and Beast story.
You can thin of that as like going through a patent, picking out the pieces where they haven't expressly covered it, and making your drug.
Ha ha! You didn't cover trifluoromethyl in this position. Oh, look, it's somewhat active AND metabolically stable? Win win! And by "win win" I mean me, winning twice, on the back of your idea that I made slightly better! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I've been in the industry a tad too long, methinks.
Check it out...
https://communities.acs.org/groups/homebrew
I have long been bothered by the 10-12 year expiration on drug patents, for the exact reasons raised here: This would never fly elsewhere. Unfortunately, this may point to the corrupt nature of the drug industry.
One reason for the patent expiration is to spur innovation. If a company had a lifetime patent, then why make anything else?
Jim...how does this point to the "corrupt nature of the pharma industry"?
Interesting & useful. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent!
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