tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319255270410241154.post2378404538098152591..comments2023-05-26T09:49:55.091-04:00Comments on Idling, Inc: Samsung, Microsoft - LinuxIdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812152678557636207noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319255270410241154.post-89833800260708787532007-07-15T10:37:00.000-04:002007-07-15T10:37:00.000-04:00http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/07/12/drugs-and-their-...http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/07/12/drugs-and-their-protection/Idlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812152678557636207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319255270410241154.post-995235940932973912007-07-15T10:28:00.000-04:002007-07-15T10:28:00.000-04:00http://kapitalist.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/kapital...http://kapitalist.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/kapital-economics-of-pharmacy-companies/Idlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812152678557636207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319255270410241154.post-47327294106848448722007-06-19T19:25:00.000-04:002007-06-19T19:25:00.000-04:00Pirates of the bio-world The monopoly over the vir...Pirates of the bio-world <BR/><BR/>The monopoly over the viruses makes them useful as a possible weapon of bioterrorism and for research away from the public domain. Such is the reluctance to forgo the viruses that when the issue was brought up before the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organisation in May, destruction of the viruses was put off indefinitely and it was decided to review the research being done on them. The deadline set for the review was a distant 2011.<BR/><BR/>The developing countries are then being asked by the drug companies to buy vaccines made with the help of the viruses they supply freely under the WHO scheme. The prices quoted by the companies are too high for the countries. Hence Indonesia's angry reaction.<BR/><BR/>http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jun/12guest1.htmIdlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812152678557636207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319255270410241154.post-14543148506332232642007-06-19T13:49:00.000-04:002007-06-19T13:49:00.000-04:00Microsoft Freshman Course: How To Monetize Patents...Microsoft Freshman Course: How To Monetize Patents<BR/><BR/>Microsoft's deputy general counsel of intellectual property, Marshall Phelps, spent 28 years at IBM figuring out how to get a return on its huge patent portfolio; IBM now collects a billion a year in royalties. Microsoft hired Phelps in June 2003 and put him to work to do the same thing for Microsoft.<BR/><BR/>http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/06/microsoft_fresh.htmlIdlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812152678557636207noreply@blogger.com