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Not to mention that they won't immediately jump to develop the next vaccine either. Really shoots us in the foot. Wonder if he'll give away other patents while he's at it. --108.69.xxx.xxx

Yep, I'm hoping that this will cause Big Pharma to throw a hissy fit and start fighting these unconstitutional "for the greater good" giveaways that cost the Govt nothing. Might help us a bit when arguing against moratoriums / cancel rent. --107.216.xxx.xxx

Vaccine developers can sue and maybe the Ninth Circuit will do something right for once and shut that down. --108.24.xx.xx

I see you are back to socializing costs and privatizing profits. If a company received US funds to develop said vaccine it belongs to the US govt and the people. And since the US gov funded the entire initial research any company that didn't take funds to develop should have limited intellectual property rights. --72.49.xxx.xxx

Just be glad we took a US first approach to vaccine distribution. Now the rest of the world needs to get vaccinated. --174.53.xxx.xxx

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The strings of common sense. Don't accept public funds for your private companies development and operations and expect to own the rights to that product. While it often turns out that way because of poor ideologies in this case it didn't. When the govt builds a highway it doesn't belong to the contractor that the govt paid to build that highway. --72.49.xxx.xxx

I hope they send it all overseas. Every last drop. Ps, this thread offends me. Please delete it. It does not promote landlording. --70.44.xxx.xx

Since there were so many different paths followed, I am inclined the government didn't centralize it. This could go either way - it really depends on the initial how IMO --24.154.xx.x

DJT definitely purchased the finished product before it was made in order to make sure it would be made. The companies worked day and night non stop to save lives and had technologies that were already in the pipeline from the last SARS outbreak. Especially for Moderna. --108.24.xx.xx

JAC's contractor example does not apply to Pfizer. --107.141.xx.xxx

As for socializing costs, this pandemic has always been a socialized cost. It's not as if we're taking a private industry burden and asking the public to bear the cost. I'm not generally a fan of that either (see various industry bailouts during the financial crisis). It's been a socialized burden all along. Just like if a hurricane leveled Florida, would we expect private builders to reconstruct people's homes for free? --100.34.x.xx

It’s hard to feel bad for Pfizer who waited until 3 days after the election to announce the vaccine was ready. They wanted President B, they got him. Now he’s taking their biggest product. Hahahaha! --50.107.xxx.xxx

Seems intriguing to me when the trial was supposed to end after 32 positives, but with the fall surge, they reached 32 positives a lot faster than expected. Then they bumped it up to 54 positives, and then 96, before they finally decided to end the trial, which coincidentally was announced the first business day after the election was called. Not saying I think that’s what happened and we’ll never know, but I do think it would make for a good movie. --100.34.x.xx

... and I think that while businesses may prefer a particular president, it’s even more important that they hitch their wagon to the winner, whoever they think that is going to be. Pfizer bet it was going to be B, at least as my movie goes, and they were right. Whether or not that turns out in their favor is a different story. --100.34.x.xx

Doing business with taxpayer money with "an understanding" sounds fishy. --72.49.xxx.xxx

JAC, you are absolutely wrong assuming that using Government money to develop a product leads to the Government owning the intellectual rights. I worked for 30+ years along side the National Labs and I can tell you that everything they developed used Federal money and the Lab owned the intellectual property and patents, the Government maintained, through contract, the right to use the technology but not to own it. Your example of a contractor is absurd, intellectual property ownership has nothing to do with hired to perform or Management and Operations contracts. --64.130.xx.xx

Just because your ideology has propagated this nonsense doesn't make it correct. If the Gov funds the research and funds the development and ops of your company for a product, they own the intellectual property. If a company funds those processes and sells it, then they own it. You all whine about handouts to people but ignore the handouts to businesses. Disgusting. --72.49.xxx.xxx

The door is that way. ————-> --174.249.xx.xx

Ah, yes. Im sure they'll do a great job producing the vaccine in Africa, India etc. Never understood what was ever wrong with putting ones own country first... its apparently sinful in the eyes of liberals. They give everything else away that's not theirs... our tax money, patents, use of rentals, who knows what's next. The easiest solution is to find a way to ramp up vaccines and give them away, not the entire recipe... --174.234.xxx.xxx

Not all and still here. --72.49.xxx.xxx

If the Government were able to do the work they wouldn't have contracted with the experts to do it. In this case (as in most of these types of contracts), the Government is looking for a solution that doesn't exist, the business has an ability but not the deep pockets to make it happen. They call it a partnership for a reason, neither has everything necessary, both bring something to the game and both walk away with something. What is disgusting is for the Goliath in the partnership to change the rules after the contract is signed. That goes beyond disgusting, it is flat out immoral and unethical. I know it's hard to swallow for some that the current administration is being unethical, but I have to call it like it is. --64.130.xx.xx