misk@sopuli.xyz to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

The White House is threatening the patents of high-priced drugs developed with taxpayer dollars

7

28

The White House is threatening the patents of high-priced drugs developed with taxpayer dollars

misk@sopuli.xyz to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

7

The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice. Washington is warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make their own versions.

Chat

Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
1·
edit-2
11 months ago
This is the specific law Biden is trying to derive the authority from if you’re interested in more:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

3.82K users / day
9.25K users / week
15.4K users / month
29.3K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
59.4K subscribers
10.7K Posts
354K Comments
Modlog