Could You Patent the Sun?

December 11, 2016

Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed. What does that mean for the development of innovative drugs and for people whose lives depend on them?

Related:Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents by Clyde Haberman

  • Producer: Peter Klein
  • Editor: Anne Checler
  • Editor: Gonda-Bastian Sinagowitz
  • Associate Producer: Lisa Hale
  • Associate Producer: Sandra McDaniel
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