If you look at the WIPO website, you'll find that there's already a small amount of this going on in the realm of AIDS drugs for sub-saharan Africa. So it wouldn't be entirely without precedent. I think they may have been banking on it as a cure for the common cold and other viral stuff. That will still be a moneymaker for quite a while since viruses can mutate pretty damn fast.
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Date: 2006-02-08 10:53 pm (UTC)