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U.S. Gets Taste of Own Patent Medicine
cheesedog writes "A few Andean countries have turned the tables on U.S. requests for more forceful expansion of patent law, requesting broader protection for indigenous plants and tribal uses of natural medicines. At first glance this seems like a win for these countries, but it is also a major braodening of the definition of what kinds of ideas can be locked away from the public in government-granted monopolies. As Right to Create notes: 'Let us hope that those involved in these negotiations, particularly those representing us in the U.S., see this for what it is: a de facto demonstration of how ridiculous our intellectual monopoly regime has become, and how insane our demands on the rest of the world's citizens are.'"
U.S. Gets Taste of Own Patent Medicine
Please make the bad puns go away! They hurt...
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
what is this "braodening" of which you speak ?
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Well, if you can patent genes and lifeforms... Why not just patent Gene Simmons?
(It's never too late to join the Renaissance)
I would love to be the country who can claim fire as its Intellectual Property! Put that in your pipe and smoke it, but it'll cost you should you use fire to light it.
Do what is right and let the consequence follow