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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Biopolis

Roberta X got me started with this footnote:
* Lilly, it should be noted, is to the patent protection of medicines what Disney is to copyright.  And that's something to ponder.
Eli Lilly and Company's Corporate Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2019.
Lilly would be Eli Lilly, the giant biochemical conglomerate headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Biopolis Complex, Singapore
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Looking for more info about their domination of medicinal patents, I came across the Biopolis in Singapore (page 55-56).

Netherlands Biopolis Concept
Looking for a better picture of the complex, I came across a vision for a multi-level city in the Netherlands from the 1970's. It looks a whole lot like what I envisoned how a city should be built.

1 comment:

xoxoxoBruce said...

Big Pharma like Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, etc, need longer patents to protect their profits they use to buy Congressmen to pass the laws to keep less expensive drugs from foreign competition from undercutting their profits. It’s a win win win...
the only loser is the public but if they don’t like it they can buy their own congressmen.