Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   At least here things like recipes have absolutely zero protection
> > from law. 

> So drugs don't have any protection? You can go to your country and 
> manufacture and sell all the Viagra you want without asking anyone else for 
> permission?

  If you mean without permission from some company who "owns" the original
product, then AFAIK that's the case. (Of course to manufacture and sell
medicine you naturally need all kinds of governmental permissions, but
that's different.) But IANAL. It's possible I'm being wrong here.

  I can understand why an American would be surprised about such a thing,
even though I'm a bit surprised they would be surprised (tautology not
intended).

  I think the only commonly-used products which sales are restricted in
Finland are alcoholic beverages. But that's not because of patents or
anything like that.

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                                                          - Warp

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