{"id":165,"date":"2007-05-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:59","slug":"usa-for-innovation-whats-it-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/usa-for-innovation-whats-it-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"USA for innovation &#8211; what&#8217;s it all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8rjkODLQpPw\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/uploaded_images\/ambassadorAdelman-722150.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/htww\/2007\/04\/25\/ken_adelman\/index.html\">This quote<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon.com<\/a>:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usaforinnovation.org\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usaforinnovation.org\/\">USA for Innovation<\/a> is a non-profit advocacy group whose primary purpose is to lobby for maximum strength intellectual property protection for American corporations. Its founder and executive director is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/982\">Ken Adelman,<\/a> a current member of the Defense Policy Board and long time Don Rumsfeld crony. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> USA for Innovation&#8217;s beef has to do with the decision by Thailand&#8217;s Ministry of Health to issue compulsory licenses <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/htww\/2006\/11\/29\/thailand_pharma\/index.html\">breaking the patents<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> on a couple of AIDS drugs made by multinational pharmaceutical companies, including Merck&#8217;s Efavirenz and Abbott Laboratories&#8217; Kaletra. The showdown has nothing at all to do with the outsourcing of jobs; it is, instead, <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cptech.org\/ip\/health\/c\/thailand\/\">ground zero in a globally intensifying struggle over making state-of-the-art drugs affordable<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> for sick people in developing countries. Abbott Laboratories was initially so enraged by Thailand&#8217;s effrontery that the company has threatened to stop introducing any of its new drugs in Thailand, but it has since backed down and offered to sell Kaletra at a greatly reduced price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/nationmultimedia.com\/2007\/05\/01\/pda\/headlines_30033108.html\">here is the resulting trouble<\/a> they caused for Thailand.  More from other Thai blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2bangkok.com\/07\/news07apr.shtml\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thailandjumpedtheshark.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/washington-times-usa-for-innovations.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bangkokpundit.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/for-innovation-another-evil-thaksin.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from Salon.com: USA for Innovation is a non-profit advocacy group whose primary purpose is to lobby for maximum strength intellectual property protection for American corporations. Its founder and executive director is Ken Adelman, a current member of the Defense Policy Board and long time Don Rumsfeld crony. 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