in fact anat blackmon had a hard time when he sold his patent to university. he p. then bake it back because he was afraid of what people would think if they knew that he had sold his drug to a profit-making company. drugs were cheap. they are not cheap any more. there is also high innovation. if you look in the past at the figures he will find that depending on the year, there was a trend where hundreds of drugs were devised every single year. hundreds of new drugs and yet there is a mentality among corporations and the legislators to whom they were whispering that was not enough because there were lots and lots of medically active molecules that were not being made into drugs, thousands of them as a matter fact. so there was an animus that we have all these patents on drugs. no one is doing anything with them. we need to have hospitals and medical centers partner with corporations so we can develop all these drugs that are lying fallow. a senator from indiana and birch buy was a senator who listened and he began complaining on the floor of congress that we have 28