Patents Choking Off Medical Research

pq writes "The New Republic has an insightful article talking about the "absence of truly innovative drugs in current drug company pipelines. And the explanation for that might well come from the supposed fount of American innovation: our patent system." Apparently they are trapped in a situation where "it's much easier to argue that `patents support innovation' than to try to explain that some patents are good for innovation while others are bad." A long read, but unlike the latest copy-protected mp3 player, this is definitely stuff that matters!"

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[Murdock037]

Way to editorialize, buddy.

You know what? Portable music probably isn't such an important topic, in and of itself. The specifics of any of the little toys are probably negligible in the grand scheme of things.

But there are ramifications to the issues surrounding them. DRM is a pretty important topic, because it leads to fair use, which is slightly more important, because it leads to copyright, which is immensely important. And so on.

Just give us the link. The frontpage is for stories, the comment section is for opinions.