It was so successful so that by 1980, Senators #BirchBayh and #BobDole were able to pass a law that gave away publicly funded medicine to private firms, because otherwise these inventions would be "overgrazed" by greedy people, denying the public access to livesaving drugs.

On September 21, the #NIH quietly published an announcement of one of these pharmaceutical transfers, buried in a list of 31 patent assignments in the #FederalRegister:

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-20487.pdf
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