Re: Canadians, a couple of questions about health care

From: Hartmann Schaffer (hs_at_hartmann.schaffernet)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:10:36 -0500

notritenoteri wrote:
> ...
> I don't know about NAFTA. I don't know about patent expropriation what would
> that be.

check out idiot ullman's first contribution to this threat: he claimed
that the patents would be given to low cost manufacturers if the
government wasn't satisfied with the prices

> If a country decides to manufacture a drug it doesn't need the
> patent if it doesn't want to pay anything. How ya gonna sue if the courts
> won't hear the case?

as far as i remember, nafta contained some clauses on IP property rights
that would make that impossible

> ...

hs