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Ecuador president Correa to override drug patents in order to provide affordable medications

10/19/2009 - (NaturalNews) The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced Sunday that he planned to override a number of pharmaceutical patents in order to provide more affordable medicines to the People of Ecuador. In a statement, Correa explained that access...

ACLU Challenges Patenting of Human Genes

9/20/2009 - (NaturalNews) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit to challenge the patents on the human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, mutations of which are believed to predispose people to breast cancer. The lawsuit names as defendants Myriad...

Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents

8/5/2009 - (NaturalNews) To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in...

Astaxanthin is Age and Disease Defying Miracle Nutrient from Microalgae

5/22/2009 - (NaturalNews) Summer is the season for astaxanthin, the carotenoid that blocks ultra violet damage to the skin. Astaxanthin has been referred to as nature's sunscreen, but it does a whole lot more to keep people looking good by promoting beauty and radiant...

High-Tech Companies Put Selected Patents in Eco-Patent Commons for Open Sharing

8/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Computer giant IBM has announced the launch of a program to place certain patented inventions in the public domain, in the interest of encouraging innovation in the field of environmentally friendlier technology. IBM, Sony, Nokia and...

The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript)

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered...

Interview With Dr. Wayne Coates: Chia Seeds (Part 2)

4/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is part two of an interview with Dr. Wayne Coates, who is perhaps the world's foremost educator on chia seeds. Dr. Coates was among the first to grow chia seeds experimentally and later for commercial purposes. An expert in...

Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism

3/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could...

Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization

10/5/2007 - Did you know that if you have children you are an international criminal? 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...

Influenza virus samples, vaccine patents and corporate lies

6/15/2007 - In this article, I'm going to explain the real story behind the big international push to get Indonesia and other Asian countries to "share" their H5N1 influenza samples with the rest of the world. As you may know, countries like Australia, the United...

Thailand health minister stands firm against Big Pharma monopolistic profiteering

3/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The health minister of Thailand, Mongkol na Songkhla, has announced that the country will override international drug patents if pharmaceutical companies do not significantly lower their prices to make medications affordable to the country's...

Thailand challenges Big Pharma, threatens to further override patents to give Thai people more affordable generic medicine

2/18/2007 - (NaturalNews) Thailand has stepped up its challenge to drug companies, saying it will continue to override corporate patents and make generic drugs until the pharmaceutical industry lowers its prices. The south Asian country, which last week broke...

Novartis sues India over drug patents; seeks to block generic manufacturing by third world nations

2/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) A legal challenge from drug maker Novartis to current Indian patent law could halt Indian companies from selling generic copies of drugs to combat AIDS and cancer to the third world. When India joined the World Trade Organization in 1995,...

Thai government sets aside patent law to produce generic AIDS, heart disease drugs

2/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Thailand has authorized compulsory licenses to produce generic versions of two patented drugs, one being a HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug, breaking the patents held by drug companies. The decision comes at the protest of the World Health...

McDonald's files 55-page patent on process to make a sandwich

12/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) The simple process of assembling a McDonalds sandwich may become a trade secret if the fast-food giant is granted the European and U.S. patents it filed for in June. Hoping to give its hot deli sandwiches a uniform look and taste across...

Junk patents to be revisited by U.S. Supreme Court; ripple effect may be profound

11/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The "obviousness" of patents is about to be confronted by the nation's most Supreme Court of law, in a case that could have broad implications for the tech industry. In recent times, software and hardware makers have long complained that...

Monsanto attempts to claim patent ownership of pigs

9/9/2005 - Piglets worldwide may have a new mother pig… Monsanto Company. In case you haven't heard, Monsanto invented the pig. Well, not all pigs, just the really profitable ones. Nature can keep all the regular pigs, but if this company gets its way, Monsanto...

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