Article: CONGRESSMAN WANTS AUTHORITY TO OVERRIDE PATENT RIGHTS.(Public Health Emergency Medicines Act)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)

WASHINGTON - All the conversation about suspending Bayer AG's patent on the anthrax drug Cipro would not have taken place if legislation proposed by Rep. Sherrod Brown had been signed into law.

Under his legislation, the government would have the right to take a patent under the guise of a national health crisis.

Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, Wednesday proposed legislation known as the Public Health Emergency Medicines Act, which would allow the government to take a company's patent or technology in the event of a national or global health-related crisis.

"This bill is much broader than his previous bills," Lila Feisee, director of ...

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