I don't think lobbying works against the US.
You must remember the story of HIV testing where a US company blocked the rest of the world from selling HIV tests to the US for about 15 years [because they claimed that they had found the virus first and that everyone else was stealing their idea]. Then they discovered documents that showed that the virus they thought they had found, had actually been sent to them [already identified], by the French HIV research centre.
As a result they were forced to open up the US market to HIV tests from the rest of the world, but the FDA maintained the blockade by insisting that any other product had to give the same results as the gold standard US product.
The special relationship only works one-way...
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Subject: Re: Patented assay techniques
Wider ACB members and Roger Ekins
Apologies for late reply to this; only just read it as I haven't been at my desk much lately.
I'm not sure if the ACB has formally or informally lobbied on behalf of Roger, but isn't there someone on the ACB Council or Scientific Committee or whatever who could do so?
There does seem a trend that everything on the planet is driven by American lawyers. There seems little incentive to go through all the red tape only for the little guy to lose in the end.
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From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Ekins
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Subject: Patented assay techniques
This is an unusual email insofar as it concerns a uniquely important patented technology that all ACB members will ultimately use but for which they will have to pay.
But most ACB members don't have the time or opportunity to conduct research, develop and patent new inventions in the field of clinical biochemistry, which is a pity.
But since ceasing to provide routine hormone assays as one of the original Supraregional Assay Service centres (as instructed by the UCL provost, who considered that such activity was inappropriate in a medical school), I and my co-workers have fortunately been able to continue studies on the effects of maternal hormones on fetal neurological development.
This has demanded the development of assay techniques, one or two of which have been relevant to clinical biochemists and which I have patented on behalf of UCL, primarily to protect the IP from foreign exploitation. Note that I have rejected any part of the royalties deriving from the patents to which I might be entitled according to UCL's rules, this element of the royalties being devoted to charity.
The attached Bullet document constitutes a brief summary of the fate of this patent of which the UK and EU scientific communities should be made aware as a warning. Also politicians, since it is totally useless to train more scientists if the government simply allows those scientists' inventions to slip through its fingers and to be unsupported.
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With best regards to all,
Roger Ekins
Prof Roger Ekins, MA(Cantab) PhD DSc FRS
University College London
Phone +44 20 3108 6042
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