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People go to doctors a lot and also go for testing to make sure they are cancer free.
Fifteen to twenty percent minimum of all money going through the medical field has to to with cancer one way or another. Knock of this money and a lot of people are out of work. A doctor will still be working but his office staff will be less. This would equate to a loss of at least a hundred thousand workers in the medical field in this country alone.
What a company would lose in profits from a small 2-5 year period where a person was dying from cancer they would then gain back from maybe 20 more years of them suffering from other age related illnesses that need expensive drugs and treatments.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by rickymouse
So you're suggesting a company would pass up the chance to be one the richest companies in the world. Plus miss out on repeat business from satisfied customers out of professional curtsey to other competing corporations in a failing world economy?
Of course they wont be interested in treatments that they can not make a profit from, but that doesn't mean they would throw away a good profit making treatment.
A huge percentage the people who would be saved from dying from cancer would be in the over 50 range and would then be in the market for more drugs and treatments for other age related illnesses for the rest of their lives. Its a win win situation for the company who finds the most effective treatment.
edit on 8-4-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by Pardon?
Hi Pardon? there are certain things cant be patented because they exist naturally. Vitamins is a simple example or using hemp oil.
edit on 9-4-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
The European Patent Convention and New Zealand Patents Act specifically exclude methods of medical diagnosis and/or treatment from patentability.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by Pardon?
Not in Europe or new Zealand it seems.
The European Patent Convention and New Zealand Patents Act specifically exclude methods of medical diagnosis and/or treatment from patentability.
www.claytonutz.com...
edit on 9-4-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
You can patent pretty much anything under the sun that is made by man except laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas. These categories are excluded subject matter from the scope of patents.
Why Can't I Patent a Discovery I Made?
Even if you make a new and useful scientific discovery that no one else has ever thought of, you cannot get a patent on it because you did not actually create the fact you discovered. That fact was always in existence, you were just the first to notice it. However, if you can come up with an invention that makes use of that fact, you can patent the invention.
What Is Physical Phenomena?
Patent law classifies physical phenomena as products of nature. Thus, if your invention occurs in nature, it is a physical phenomenon and cannot be patented.
What Cannot Be Patented? Can I Patent a Living Thing?
It depends. If your invention is a product of nature, it falls under excluded subject matter. However, if your invention does not occur naturally and can only exist through some work on your part, you may be able to get a patent. For example:
You cannot patent a species of mouse that you find running around your laboratory
You can patent a genetically engineered mouse that you designed for use in cancer research
You cannot patent a combination of bacteria with beneficial properties if that combination occurs somewhere in nature
You can patent a species of bacteria that you genetically alter to solve a common problem if that form does not occur naturally
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by Pardon?
You can patent pretty much anything under the sun that is made by man except laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas. These categories are excluded subject matter from the scope of patents.
Why Can't I Patent a Discovery I Made?
Even if you make a new and useful scientific discovery that no one else has ever thought of, you cannot get a patent on it because you did not actually create the fact you discovered. That fact was always in existence, you were just the first to notice it. However, if you can come up with an invention that makes use of that fact, you can patent the invention.
What Is Physical Phenomena?
Patent law classifies physical phenomena as products of nature. Thus, if your invention occurs in nature, it is a physical phenomenon and cannot be patented.
What Cannot Be Patented? Can I Patent a Living Thing?
It depends. If your invention is a product of nature, it falls under excluded subject matter. However, if your invention does not occur naturally and can only exist through some work on your part, you may be able to get a patent. For example:
You cannot patent a species of mouse that you find running around your laboratory
You can patent a genetically engineered mouse that you designed for use in cancer research
You cannot patent a combination of bacteria with beneficial properties if that combination occurs somewhere in nature
You can patent a species of bacteria that you genetically alter to solve a common problem if that form does not occur naturally
www.legalmatch.com...
This is why you can not patent things like vitamins or hemp oil. If a drugs company worked out that taking vitamin C could cure cancer tomorrow there is no way they could then patent vitamin C. If you mixed something up with the vitamin C it might be possible. But still very difficult. But then if the important thing in that mixture was the vitamin C and everything els was just filler just get a patent then some other company could then got and take vitamin C and then add some other filler and get the same results. Company B then benefits off company A's research and development. So the patent is costly and useless.
This is why big drug companies are not interested in investing in research on simple treatments like vitamins.
edit on 10-4-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
Please tell me how Rockwell Medical patented their version of vitamin D then please?
Vitamin D3 is a prohormone produced in skin through ultraviolet irradiation of 7-dehydrocholesterol
Intellectual property
A process for the production of Calcitriol is patent protected (EP 735 510; US 5 698 714; AU 676 982; IL 118 837)
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Please tell me how Rockwell Medical patented their version of vitamin D then please?
The substance already exists in nature
Yet another in an extremely long line of cures, free energy devices, etc that will change the world and yet are swept under the rug and never heard from again
Everybody knows that there's more money to be made in the treatment of diseases as opposed to the cure.
Everybody knows that there's more money to be made in the treatment of diseases as opposed to the cure.