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Patents kill. Every single day that NewLink delays shipment of vaccines, in the interest of keeping “control over the development of the vaccine,” is an act of repeated mass murder. #AbolishIntellectualProperty #PatentsKill – – – cut here – – – At the center of the controversy is NewLink Genetics, a small company in Ames, Iowa, that bought a license to the vaccine’s commercialization from the Canadian government in 2010, and is now suddenly caught up in what WHO calls “the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times.” Becker and others say the company has been dragging its feet the past 2 months because it is worried about losing control over the development of the vaccine. But Brian Wiley, vice president of business development at NewLink Genetics, says the company is doing all it can. “Our program has moved forward at an unprecedented pace,” he says. Even if it took another few months, “we would still be breaking a record in terms of getting this into patients.” – – – cut here – – –