Re: XYWrite reincarnation

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

India has a different system of patent laws than we do. I believe it's one
of the countries where you can lose a patent for failure to work the patent.

As you may have read in the news reports, Indian pharmaceutical companies
were copying American and British AIDS drugs, and selling them for $300 for
a year's supply rather than the $10,000 it used to cost. The big
pharmaceutical companies were fighting it, but that battle seemed to have
collapsed, especially with the Cipro patent.

Norman

At 10:44 AM 10/21/01 -0700, R. E. Stannard Jr. wrote:
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>This morning the items appended below turned up on another listserve. It
>struck me that if XYWrite is nearly or actually dead as a commercial
>product, it might be ripe for reincarnation in India as a free spirit
>serving the noncommercial masses worldwide.


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