The Motley Fool on Pharmaceutical Patents
You’re Only Hurting Yourself Thailand (Article regarding stance on pharmaceutical patents still held by Thailand) - Motley Fool, January 2007
Excerpt: When I was in grad school, we were repeatedly bombarded with examples of governments making idiotic, short-sighted moves that hampered the long-term health of their economies and citizens. And now it appears that Thailand has made just such a gaffe. On Monday, Thailand’s government announced that it was going to allow either the manufacture or importation of generic versions of Abbott’s (NYSE: ABT) HIV treatment Kaletra and Sanofi-Aventis’ (NYSE: SNY) blood clot drug Plavix, even though the drugs are still under patent protection and producing generic versions of them would be illegal in many countries.