In an interview with Edward R. Murrow, he was asked who owned the patent on the vaccine. Salk famously replied, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” ...

Dr. Jonas Salk didn’t miss a beat when Edward R. Murrow asked him, in a 1955 television interview, who owned the patent on the polio vaccine.

In fact, during an interview after the vaccine was proven successful, Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent on the vaccine. "The people, I would say," Jonas Salk gave as an answer.

Salk, who had worked on flu vaccines during World War II, joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1947 and soon began working on a possible polio vaccine. Did his discovery of the polio vaccine ...

Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed. What does that mean for the development of innovative drugs and for people whose lives ...

Neither Jonas Salk nor Albert Sabin pursued patents and Dr. Sabin only got his regular salary. The sky didn’t fall on anybody. Share Resize Listen (1 min) ...