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Biotech Report Says IP Spurs Innovation
ananyo writes "A report presented at the 2012 BIO International Convention in Boston, Massachusetts suggests that patents do not stifle progress when they occur at early phases of research, as some have suggested. Over the past decade, increases in patents have been matched by growth in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors in India, Brazil, Singapore and other countries with emerging economies. The strength of patent rights can be quantified in an index ranging from 0 (no patent rights) to 5 (very strong). Over time, the countries that U.S. biotech and pharmaceutical companies have invested in have moved up the IP barometer, the report (PDF) says."
Internet Protocol Spurs Innovation
Let's all focus on software patents rather than all patents in general. The argument is much more cut and dry. If we focus all our energy on getting rid of software patents, I think it would be more beneficial than trying to reform all patent law. Once we've gotten rid of software patents, then we can move to reforming the patent law in regards to areas that are much more gray.
people invested in a broken system have enough to lose to profess faith in the broken system
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
American companies insist on having rights! The fact that they are getting those rights does not mean the rights are doing anyone any good. In fact the pharmaceutical industry is in trouble because they've been leaning on their patents instead of doing basic research. Now the patents are expiring and the companies have nothing else to offer. In that light, the patent system is doing tremendous harm.
Bank report says,"Banks are awesome!"
I kid you not (I read TFA). At least the have a good acronym (BIO).
This pro-ACTA pro-IP organization writes lots of so-called white-papers.
This is one more of the same.
Think of them as a lobbyist organization for the pro-IP side of the world
including Big Pharma and Microsoft: http://www.pugatch-consilium.com/?page_id=580
Here's their list of publications which includes pro-ACTA stuff:
http://www.pugatch-consilium.com/?page_id=590
This isn't news. It's more astroturfing by the "IP is Awesome" side of the world."
There's a reason that Microsoft and Big Pharma pays these guys. This paper is one such.
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"patents do not stifle progress when they occur at early phases of research"
Implies that they do stifle progress later on.
Perception is at play here.
Investors simply want to know that they will control the market; no competition, easy profit.
This is the ONLY thing patents do if you speak of progress.
But once entrenched, those interests will do whatever it takes to dominate and control.
Patents either need to go away completely or be very limited.
But unfortunately the destructive power of greed will not allow people to "limit" patents.
So what is the solution?
I call BS.
Myriad's patents do not claim the gene per se, rather an isolated form of the gene.
In fact there are no patents of "genes" unless they involve isolated genetic material and describe specific functionality of the isolated material, as does the Myriad patent.
There are two separate questions:
1. Is intellectual property justified?
2. Does intellectual property promote creative works?
Regardless of the answer to the second question, the answer to the first question is "no". Threatening to imprison or kill individuals, which is what all laws ultimately are, is unjustified. No, we don't deserve everything for free. Yes, it's immoral to derive value from someone's hard work without compensation. But immoral does not equal illegal. The government should, at most, be using its monopoly on violence to protect people and their property. Using violence, locking people in cages, destroying their lives, killing them, just to promote something that would exist anyways, is asinine and barbaric.
A correlation does not a causation make.
by John Perkins. If you haven't seen it, it is worth seeing (or reading, because there is a book). We go to them and make them an offer they can't refuse: in this pocket, there is enough money to make you and your family wealthy; in this pocket there is a gun...what's it going to be?
For some reason, America has a strong desire to make the rest of the world "like us." Our foreign policy mirrors that. First we attempt to buy them off. If that doesn't work, we shoot them.
True freedom means that people are free to make their own choices, for better or for worse. Luckily, the US will step in to make sure everyone makes the right choice...and you better bet your life the right choice is that everyone ends up looking just like us.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality