Concerned with it. Heroin is cut with that in order to increase the addictive nature . Increases potency. People go back to it. That is kind of the tragic part of it. Word gets out it is strong, and traffic rules to have traffickers will do that. It will spike something hot so you the wild Overdose Deaths and verbal travel. There will be a desire for that product. It is mixed with heroin, other substances and really can be mixed with anything just to kind of expanded in its commercial viability. Adding that to some other products, as dangerous as in our products might be, adding that to it is almost tantamount to knowing youll be committing a certain amount of murders as it is distributed amongst the populace. That is unavoidable. A significant quantity in the hands of the population can result in a certain number of deaths. Yes. We have had success with this Death Investigation overdoses. How difficult is it to prosecute . You are speaking earlier. The Biggest Challenges reactive. Our
We cant ignore international competition. The question for the committee is, if the United States isnt going to adopt some form of intellectual property bonds or patent box, what are we going to do . Are we going to just ignore what is going on in the rest of the world . It hardly seems like a good idea. But the downside and people have noticed this of the patent box or intellectual property boxes that unless theyre carefully crafted, you can have a serious problem of encouraging too much property being included in the patent box, and you get a lot of revenue erosion that way, and its pretty undesirable. The issue really is what are we trying to achieve with the intellectual property box and patent something to the answer should be we want to encourage activities we would otherwise lose, and if we find ourselves in that situation, then we should try to figure out a way to craft one of these things. The rest of the world is doing and it we ignore them at our peril. I think i have a diff
Suppliers and manufacturers have recognized the challenge we face for this century, literally this weapons platform will be critical to our national defense. We we can look back and draw lessons and we should from the challenges that cause that improvement to take place. Maybe even the overall conceptual framework as you suggested should there have been more individualization of the platform for different services. But i can well recall that the conventional wisdom not so long ago was the services should get together and collaborate and the by a single fighter and that was the wisdom does your of contracting in its day. Now maybe lessons point in different directions. I hope we will learn lessons from this experience but there has to be a recognition that this weapon platform will do things that no fighter engine or platform has done in the past, would you agree doctor fillmore . The investment ranking is large and the need that we have is large to deal with the threats that currently
Commercialization phase of the other companies developed ip. These Companies Face the same precious to compete in the global marketplace. Any other u. S. Multinational company is facing today, including the pressure to locate facilities and plants in the u. S. Or abroad, threatening the livelihood of thousands of u. S. Workers. One of the most effective tax incentives utilized by several european nations is the patent box. My question to you, dr. Hines, is ginn the growing diversity of companies in the Life Sciences industry and the increasingly specialized roles of bringing ip to market and the hundreds of thousands of jobs in the commercialization, development, and manufacturing of these products, how do you suggest that we equitably allocated benefits in the context of a patent or Innovation Box model . And specifically, as it relates to our competitors around the world who are already moving in this direction. I know this to me appears to be a complication to the tax code, but at t
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