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by cadr 1822 days ago
I wonder if a better effort would be to challenge the patents rather than try to go around them.

(Not that I don't think what you are doing is awesome, because I do.)

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Yes! The Open Insulin foundation not only has volunteers with a biomedical background, we have volunteers from many other backgrounds including lawyers that help us try and challenge existing patents. Again, others have said that manpower might be better invested in openly challenging the monopoly that U.S. companies have on some of these patents in court or by appealing to our congressmen. However, I believe that there’s no reason not to do both in parallel. My scientific training can only take me so far and i’ll happily help a project like this if it can open up a new source of affordable insulin in this country, but believe me, I know that at the root this is a legislative issue.