Mr. David Adamsasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, as the high price of the new drugs which are used against malaria in the British tropical Empire is an important factor in denying their benefits to Native populations, arrangements will be made for their manufacture, under licence, in this country, with a view to increasing supply and materially reducing their price?
Mr. StanleySection 38A of the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932, already provides that the Comptroller General of Patents, unless he sees good reason to the contrary, shall grant to any person applying for it a licence to use in the United Kingdom any process employed in the production of a medicine which is the subject of a patent. The Section further provides that in settling the terms of the licence the Comptroller shall have regard to the desirability of making the medicine available to the public at the lowest possible
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price consistent with a due reward to the inventor.