{"id":1196,"date":"2021-04-30T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:23:24","slug":"why-wont-they-release-the-vaccine-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Why won\u2019t they release the vaccine patents?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend Dave Winer (haven\u2019t actually met, but I feel like we have a conversation going) <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2021\/04\/29.html#a180543\">asks<\/a> for a simple explanation for why the pharmas won\u2019t release the IP for the Coronavirus vaccines to the public domain, to alleviate the shortage in supply,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s clear that this is needed.  But my understanding of why it\u2019s not in the companies\u2019 interest is: the tech behind the new mRNA vaccines is potentially much more general, to be applied to all sorts of disease.  It\u2019s taken years to develop, and the COVID vaccine is just the first instance of its being (fabulously) successfully applied to a real world problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies are concerned that, by teaching anyone to make it, they\u2019re effectively foregoing any ability to make a return from future applications of the same tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Dave Winer (haven\u2019t actually met, but I feel like we have a conversation going) asks for a simple explanation for why the pharmas won\u2019t release the IP for the Coronavirus vaccines to the public domain, to alleviate the shortage in supply, It\u2019s clear that this is needed. But my understanding of why it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}