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Patents Choking Off Medical Research

Posted by michael on from the legal-landmines dept.

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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  1. Choke This! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post.

  2. Fantastic by elefantstn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boy, this article really is a surprise coming from Michael.

    --
    If it ain't broke, you need more software.
  3. mp3 players matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "unlike the latest copy-protected mp3 player, this is definitely stuff that matters!"

    i see michael has gone from trolling to letting others troll for him. is this proxy trolling? does that make michael a troll proxy? discuss.

  4. THANK YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well said man. I'm tired of the slashdot crowd bitching on it's public forums about how much slashdot sucks.

    1. Re:THANK YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Slashdot sucks.
      You suck.

  5. Re:Article summary deserves (-1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > The frontpage is for stories, the comment section is for opinions.

    Are you on crack? The submissions readers write nearly _always_ editorialize about the story they are linking to. It's both funny and depressing how much time some of you people devote to attacking the packaging around the content on /.

    The link is there. Ignore the rest if you want to, but its a sign of the times when the usual non-pissy /. users like me are starting to go off on posts like yours (see the reply to the FP .. wasn't me, but I feel the same way)

    BTW, if you think artists right to make a living off of art through legislation such as copyright is more important than curing millions of people of deadly viruses and sicknesses .. we artists will always find a way of being supported by our community and peers with or without copyright. Stopping people from dying en masse is a tad more important than ensuring there is a law in place to allow artists to earn money outside of their community.

    That's not to say that copyright isn't important, because obviously it is, but copyrights don't mean much to anybody unless they're alive.

  6. Well said! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude!
    I am impressed by your post! If I had any mod points and the interest to log in, I'd give you a +5, Intelligent! Keep 'em coming!
    DOWN with rightious liberalism!!!

  7. Insightful??!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This post should have been modded down to -5 Troll, or even -5 Karmawhore
    stupid fucking righteous bastard.....

    posted AC because I don't give a fuck anymore!