Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When the next pandemic really does strike, we may lose 10 percent of the human population while drug companies bicker over who owns the patents on the medicines to save whoever's still left standing. I honestly believe that most drug companies would rather see millions of people die from disease than have to give up their patents and profits. The drug business is a for-profit business, and there's simply no profit in doing what's right for the community at large. There's only profit in the exploitation, ownership and control of genes, drugs and vaccines. |
| Nations should refuse to recognize all patents on genes, seeds and medicines. Those things should belong to the people, not the wealthy elite, and nations that play along with the rich, white elitist corporate patent game will only find themselves bankrupt and diseased, having surrendered their health and wealth to American and European drug companies that seek only more power, profits and control... no matter what the cost in human lives. |
| I honestly believe that most drug companies would rather see millions of people die from disease than have to give up their patents and profits. The drug business is a for-profit business, and there's simply no profit in doing what's right for the community at large. There's only profit in the exploitation, ownership and control of genes, drugs and vaccines. |
| It's interesting that western nations claim Indonesia must "share" its virus samples, and yet when it comes down to the products manufactured from those samples, drug companies certainly aren't interested in "sharing" their profits or patents with anyone. You see, when capitalist corporations were in Kindergarten, nobody taught them how to share. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Intellectual property, and patents in particular, are intended to cover inventions; things that we were the first to create, not something we stumbled across because we have the right equipment to detect them in the natural world. Clearly, genes are already in existence. We did not invent them; nature did. And yet, people and organizations have been granted patents on seeds from nature.
No patents on seeds
Those of you familiar with the subject know I'm talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to India. It has been harvested for centuries throughout India and Southeast Asia. |
Stacy Malkan
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 In her searches at the US patent office, she found patents proposing to use phthalates in a broad range of cosmetic products, from shampoos to deodorant — even gum, candy and pharmaceutical drugs. Procter & Gamble had the highest number, 37 out of the 100 patents she analyzed.
Jane wrote up the results in a report she called Beauty Secrets: Does a Common Chemical in Nail Polish Pose Risks to Human Health?5 "We purposefully phrased the subtitle of the report as a question," Jane explained. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And if you're wondering where all the medicine would come from if patents were abolished, the answer is that all the medicine we need already exists in nature. One acre of rainforest contains more medicine than all the drug companies in the world, but those medicines are never promoted because they can't compete financially with patented synthetic chemicals. Take away the patents, and all medicine becomes open source. Suddenly real medicine is accessible and affordable to everyone. (It's far safer medicine, too. Herbs are orders of magnitude safer than prescription drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And yet, people and organizations have been granted patents on seeds from nature.
No patents on seeds
Those of you familiar with the subject know I'm talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to India. It has been harvested for centuries throughout India and Southeast Asia. But a few years ago, a U.S. company filed for a patent on basmati rice and the U.S. Patent Office said, "Sure enough, you own it." That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in India. They said, in effect, "All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. |
Paula Begoun
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 There are millions of cosmetics patents, and not one has any meaning when it comes to effectiveness. This is because patents are granted for formulation procedures or for use claims, not because the products can really do something. Variations and potential uses are endless (which is why there are millions of patents), but the basic fact is that a patent doesn't have anything to do with effectiveness, only with the specifics of the formula. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 There are also no patents that deal with proof of efficacy. All a patent can legally do is attribute to an ingredient or formulation the capability to be used for a specific purpose (such as wrinkles, acne, exfoliation, or skin-lightening). That has nothing to do with whether or not those ingredients can do anything at all. patents also do not indicate or validate the quality, reliability, or usefulness of a product, nor does a patent mean that certain established ingredients can't be used by other companies for other purposes (Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov). |
Stacy Malkan
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| The "gold rush" for nanotechnology patents continues, with more than 4,000 US patents issued to date, Kimbrell reported. More than $32 billion in nano-products were sold in 2005, twice the amount as in 2004. There are now more than 200 self-identified nano-products on US shelves, including paints, sporting goods, sunscreens, cosmetics, stain-resistant clothing, cell phones and digital cameras. The personal care industry is leading the way as the largest single category. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 A document filed with the patents and Trademarks Office reveals that beverages such as orange juice can be "stably clouded by the suspension of soy protein particles therein. A new procedure is provided to cause such suspension, in which pectin prevents suspended protein particles from aggregating to the point of settling out."
SOURCE: Patent #5286511, Docket #303191, Serial #7965308, Date patented 2/ 15/94. www.ars.usda.gov/research/patents/patents.htm?serialnum=07965308. |
Melody Petersen
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 George Merck again showed his concern for the advancement of medicine over profit in 1946, when he gave the patents his company had obtained on the antibiotic streptomycin to a public trust.
Dr. Selman A. Waksman, the inventor of streptomycin and a scientist at Rutgers University, had worked with the company to produce the drug, the first antibiotic found to work against tuberculosis, the deadly lung infection. As part of the deal between Waksman and the company, Merck received the commercial patents on the medicine. In exchange, the company would pay a royalty to Waksman and the university. |
Paula Begoun
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| This is because patents are granted for formulation procedures or for use claims, not because the products can really do something. Variations and potential uses are endless (which is why there are millions of patents), but the basic fact is that a patent doesn't have anything to do with effectiveness, only with the specifics of the formula.
Even when a patented product or formula actually does do something positive for the hair, as in the instance of two-in-one shampoos, it doesn't necessarily take much for another company to come up with a very similar (and equally patentable) formula. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 U.S. patents issued for the use of ribose to treat ischemic tissue. More patented applications for ribose therapy were to follow.
The first organized clinical trial of ribose in human subjects was reported in 1989. This study showing the effect of ribose in patients with the genetic muscle disorder myoadenylate deaminase disease (MAD), was overwhelmingly positive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you wonder why companies are granted patents for the human gene sequence or for seeds, here's the reason: It's because corporations are in charge, and they run governments. Who do you think runs the Food and Drug Administration? It's the drug companies. Who do you think runs the U.S. Department of Agriculture? It's the farming, beef and the dairy industries.
Take a look at every single decision the USDA, the FDA, and various government departments have made: they benefit big business. It's all about not just protecting business, but helping big business become more profitable. |
Dawson Church
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 Commissioner of patents and Trademarks, urged the U.S. Congress to abolish his office, with the conviction that "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." His position seemed reasonable at the time: After all, for transportation, we had railroads that traversed continents, and steam ships that could cross the Atlantic in less than a week. For communication, we had telegraphs that could relay messages in Morse code around the world.
Yet within a half a century of his prediction, a flood of inventions—the airplane, the automobile, the telephone, the computer? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You have violated intellectual property laws by infringing on the copyrights of companies that have been granted patents on the human genome. You have replicated that gene sequence by having children without the permission of the owners of those gene sequences. As bizarre as it sounds, it's absolutely true: having children is a violation of patent law.
This has come about because those at the U.S. Patent Office seem to have lost their collective minds. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 All their patents were accepted with the explanation that the ultimate source of energy 'appears to be the zero-point radiation of the vacuum continuum'.y
Hal and Ken's discoveries were given an unexpected boost when the Pentagon, which rates new technologies in order of importance to the nation, listed condensed-charge technology, as zero-point energy research was then termed, as number 3 on the National Critical Issue List, only after stealth bombers and optical computing. A year later, condensed-charge technology would move into the number two slot. |
| Since 1997, Benveniste and his DigiBio colleagues have filed three patents on diverse applications. For Benveniste the biologist, the applications, naturally enough, were medical. He believed his discovery could open the way for an entirely new digital biology and medicine, which would replace the current clumsy hit-and-miss method of taking drugs.
It occurred to him that if you don't need the molecule itself, but only its signal, then you don't need to take drugs, do biopsies or test for toxic substances or pathogens such as parasites and bacteria with physical sampling. |
Bill Sardi
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 The entire cancer care industry is involved in finding natural molecules that prevent or treat cancer, rearranging them solely to gain patents that ensure their ability to reap huge profits. These re-arranged molecules, called analogs, then produce side effects because the body does not accept them.
It's really quite enraging to read that the American Cancer Society says "Fewer than half of all people with cancer in the U.S. actually die of the disease—and many who are not 'cured' of cancer still go on living for years with relatively few changes in their lives. |
Devra Davis
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 Patents or patent application, this publication cannot be held to give any protection against action for infringement." In other words, "trade secrets" were not to be compromised by the release of the report. The state of employees' health was apparently a trade secret. Not until many years later, when lawsuits were filed alleging earlier knowledge of some of these hazards, were these forgotten reports unearthed from moldy boxes where they had been stored. That was when it became clear just how strangely connected the lives of Hueper and Kehoe had been. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Like true gamblers, they sought a quick pay off—at least before their patents expired.
We don't need the benefit of 150 years to see their mistakes. According to the European Commission, it is "striking that the experts confirm how little was known on so many of the relevant issues only 10-15 years ago, and how much the scientific understanding of many of these issues has developed since then." Long after GM crops were approved, experts identified "previously unsuspected areas of risks and impacts," or "flaws in the way risk assessments may have been conducted in the past. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The report of the commissioner of patents for 1849 attempted to tally up the cost to the country.
One thousand millions of dollars, judiciously expended, will hardly restore the one hundted million acres of partially exhausted lands in the Union to that richness of mould, and strength of fertility for permanent cropping, which they possessed in their primitive state. . . . |
Andreas Moritz
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 According to the report, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 20 percent of the 3,000 researchers actually admitted that they had delayed publication of research results for more than 6 months, to obtain patents and to "slow the dissemination of undesired results." "Sometimes if you accept a grant from a company, you have to include a proviso that you won't distribute anything except with its OK. It has a negative impact on science," says Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Paul Berg. |
Bottom Line Health
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| A diuretic might cost $29 per year, compared with $549 to $749 for Norvasc, depending on the dose. The patents for diuretics expired decades ago, so drug companies do not make much profit from them.
•Should everyone who has high blood pressure just take a diuretic? High blood pressure is a complex problem. Some people respond to one drug, some to another, and some need more than one. It would make sense, though, to start by taking a diuretic, and use expensive drugs such as Norvasc only when other alternatives haven't worked.
•Are natural therapies a better alternative to some drugs? |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| First patents issued to Dr. Foker on the use of D-ribose to treat ischemic tissue.
1989
Dr. Manfred Gross (Germany) conducts first human clinical study involving ribose treatment for myoadenylate deaminase deficiency.
1991
Dr. Neal Perlmutter (United States) uncovers role of ribose for unmasking hibernating myocardium using thallium-201 imaging. First human study on ribose in heart disease.
1992
Dr. Wolfgang Pliml (Germany) shows the benefit of ribose in improving exercise tolerance in patients with coronary artery disease. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Drug companies rely so much on profit generated from drugs, especially new ones attached to active patents, that they've begun persuasive marketing campaigns targeting consumers direcuy. In doing so, many times they will angle an ad to make you think you need this pill or that potion to live a healthier, longer life (as in "Ask your doctor if X is right for you." |
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