Name: 薬の価格はなぜ高いのか？時代遅れの米国特許制度を調査する｜プリティ・クリシュテル (Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel)
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For my husband, it was love at first sight.

who I had strictly put in the friend zone at the time,

a pharmaceutical scientist who had just retired

"Ah, you probably wouldn't have heard of it.

Rudy paused for a long time, and then he said,

"That's the disease that took my father's life 15 years ago."

Rudy says that this is the moment he fell in love.

Even though it was too late for my dad to save his,

he felt that destiny had delivered us this full-circle moment.

In my family, we have a special love for my father's inventions.

And in particular, we have a reverence for his patents.

We have framed patents on the wall in our house.

And there's a recognition in our family that everything I've been able to do --

college, law school, health justice work --

all of it is because America enabled my father

Last year, I met the director of the US Patent Office

and I sent my family a selfie from that office in Virginia.

you would have thought I had met Beyoncé.

I was actually there to talk about a problem --

how our outdated patent system is fueling the high cost of medicines

Today, over two billion people live without access to medicines.

Thirty-four million Americans have lost a family member or a friend

Rising drug costs are pushing families into homelessness,

and parents to crowdfunding treatment for their critically ill children.

that America tries to export to the rest of the world.

The original intention behind the patent system

by rewarding them with a time-limited monopoly.

But today, that intention has been distorted beyond recognition.

Corporations have teams of lawyers and lobbyists

whose sole job is to extend patent protection as long as possible.

It took 155 years for the US Patent Office

It took just 27 years for it to issue the next five million.

We haven't gotten drastically more inventive.

Corporations have gotten drastically better at gaming the system.

The vast majority of medicines associated with new drug patents

Nearly eight out of 10 are for existing ones,

My organization, a team of lawyers and scientists,

recently conducted an investigation into the 12 best-selling drugs in America.

there are 125 patents filed on each medicine.

Often for things we've known how to do for decades,

The higher a patent wall a company builds,

the longer they hold on to their monopoly.

The patent wall is a strategy to block competition.

that America's founders originally envisioned,

Meanwhile, prices on these drugs have continued to increase --

That's seven times the rate of inflation.

Now I want to be really clear about something.

This isn't about making the pharmaceutical industry the bad guy.

is whether the system we created to promote progress

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