In the US, you don't need medical insurance to get health care. Hospitals cannot turn away emergency cases, and the indigent are covered by medicare.
My sister-in-law lost everything in Katrina, and was diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks later. Medicare is paying for her radiation and chemo at one of the top oncology clinics in the world (MD Anderson).
Except that the companies are in a powerful position to screw you over. If all the relevant licensees agree to not license your invention, then they will get it for free. Sure there is a short-term advantage in it for them -- they get their product out say a year earlier (assuming your patent expires in a year), but at the long-term obligation of license fees. Corporations are greedy and shortsighted, but not terminally stupid.
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In the US, you don't need medical insurance to get health care. Hospitals cannot turn
away emergency cases, and the indigent are covered by medicare.
My sister-in-law lost everything in Katrina, and was diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks later. Medicare is paying for her radiation and chemo at one of the top oncology clinics in the world (MD Anderson).
Except that the companies are in a powerful position to screw you over. If all the relevant licensees agree to not license your invention, then they will get it for free. Sure there is a short-term advantage in it for them -- they get their product out say a year earlier (assuming your patent expires in a year), but at the long-term obligation of license fees. Corporations are greedy and shortsighted, but not terminally stupid.
that the big PSP announcement didn't involve any actual games.