From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: FACTS from Indian Consulate about Patents laws
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:31:09 GMT
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In article <1993Jan7.034424.18909@oracle.us.oracle.com> krshah@us.oracle.com (Kalpak Shah  ) writes:
>In U.S individual is paramount. In India it is not so straight forward.
	Actually, in the U.S. *some* individuals are paramount.  In 
	practice it is very seldom the inventor himself that owns the
	technology.  In the vast majority of cases the inventor's employer 
	owns all patents.  Unfortunately, most U.S. companies are set up to
	deliver maximum rewards to the executives who run the companies
	not the individuals who work in them or even the stockholders that
	ostensibly own them.  This little problem is corrupting US companies
	and defrauding stockholders and stakeholders from their rightful
	distribution of the profits.  It also makes a mockery of the
	arguments for the fairness of intellectual property since most
	of it is actually usurped by individuals who do not have the
	creativity or the technical competence to create intellectual
	property themselves.  

 Indian Govt has 
>specifically singled out the above three industries because
>it was felt that in these specific industries the benefits to society are
>too great to sacrifice. This is also the main reason for very low drugs 
>cost in India.
	This was a very wise move on the part of the Indian Government.
	I wish our government would do the same.

>But realistically U.S is putting so much pressure on India that India has 
>agreed to it "in principle" and wants to delay this as much as possible. 
>US is too powerful a nation, to ignore their needs.
	If more countries would resist the U.S. then this unfortunate
	situation could be reversed.  The problem is that no countries
	have the self-confidence and the determination to tell Uncle Sam to
	fuck off and then openly encourage others to resist also.
	The U.S. can fight one war quite effectively-- 20 wars are
	a different story.  All it takes is a certain critical mass
	of resistors and the empire will crumble to the ground.
	Eastern Europe threw off the yoke of Russian imperialism.
	When is the rest of the world going to do the same thing to
	American imperialism?

>Now everyone can argue about which system is good (personally I am for Indian
>system) but looks like it is just a matter of time when India accedes to
>changes that US wants and health care in India becomes costly.
	I am also for the Indian system.  I think the U.S. system is
	a very costly joke on the American people.  If India took its
	case directly to the American people and showed that the
	Indian system could decrease health care costs they might
	win.  The time is ripe for a political defeat for the U.S.
	pharmaceutical companies.  The American people are fed up
	with high health care costs and they are ready to try anything
	to get them back down.  I think you could fight a very effective
	rear guard action against the US. pharmaceutical companies
	with the right publicity in the American media.  Your government
	could also exploit trade tensions to drive a wedge between
	the rest of the west and the U.S.  I think it is high time
	for some creative solutions to the US imperialism problem.



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