But I was under the impression that when someone files for a patent on something, they are obligated to publish all their research. Somewhere i had read that the biotech companies like Monsanto had to make public all their research when they applied for a patent, or maybe it was when they are awarded the patent.
does anyone know if that is true?
claire
At 4:19 PM +0100 2/28/08, Ira Glazer wrote:
>doug > but drug-company-sponsored research shows an effect, sez the article.
>
>part of the problem is that the pharmaceutical companies had research
>showing how little effective these drugs were, but didn't publish it
>(this is a tremendous problem in general with pharmaceutical research)
>
>http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/antidepressant-drugs-udontu-work-ndash-official-study-787264.html
>
>...The pharmaceutical companies had withheld data that was available to
>the licensing authorities so that doctors and patients did not
>understand the true efficacy, or lack of it, of the drugs.
>
>"This has been the frustration. It has made it very difficult to answer
>the question of whether the drugs work. The pharmaceutical companies
>should be obliged when they get a drug licensed to make all the data
>available to the public. When you analyse all the trials of these SSRIs,
>both published and unpublished, it leads you to more sober conclusions,"
>Professor Kirsch said.
>
>Tim Kendall, deputy director of the Royal College of Psychiatrists'
>research unit, said the findings, if proved true, would not be
>surprising. As head of the National Collaborating Centre for Nice
>guidelines on mental health, he said it had proved impossible to get
>access to unpublished trials in the past.
>
>"The companies have this data but they will not release it. When we were
>drawing up the guidelines on prescribing antidepressants to children [in
>2004] we wrote to all the companies asking for it but they said no. The
>Government pledged in its manifesto to compel the drug companies to give
>access to their data but that commitment has not been met."...
>
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