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Article: BRAZIL MIGHT BE FIRST TO BREAK AIDS DRUG PATENT.(Business)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2005
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Byline: Alan Clendenning Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- AIDS activists and humanitarian groups are praising Brazil for taking the first step by any country to break an AIDS drug patent and produce copycat versions, a decision they hope leads to massive exports to other poor countries devastated by the disease.
Property-rights advocates and the pharmaceutical industry, though, are equating the nation's high-stakes move against U.S.-based Abbott Laboratories Inc. as government-sanctioned piracy of intellectual property driven by greed.
Brazil has repeatedly forced AIDS drugs manufacturers to reduce prices by issuing threats to break ...