Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug

Andy Tai writes: "In this CNN story, Brazil decides to break a patent over an AIDS drug for public benefits. Brazil will produce the drug domestically without agreements with patent holder, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche. Brazil's efforts to fight AIDS have been praised internationally, and it successfully prevented the US Government from bringing complaints in the WTO on behalf of the drugs industry. This may set an important example that public needs justify the disregard of patent protection." There's another article in the Boston Globe about the decision.

Comments

Re:Already discussed at WTO

[fgn]

> Brasil (yes, I prefer with the 's')

And you would be wrong... Brazil in English is spelled with a 'Z' and in Portuguese with a 'S'.
As your post was in English...

Do you spell Italy as Italia? Germany as Deutschland?

Re:Example?

[wct]

Damned right.