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A unique person with a unique common sense in the EP
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| It’s not just about the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The proposed
| alternative to pharmaceutical patents starts from the fact that the big
| pharmaceutical companies officially admit they only spend 15% of their
| revenues on research, to suggest that the governments could take 20% of what
| they currently spend on drugs (which is a lot of money!) and allocate it to
| pharmaceutical research, with the results free to anyone. However, the Pirate
| Party is the only political party to have asserted that all kind of patents
| have to be abolished, not only the pharmaceutical patents and the software
| patents!
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http://beranger.org/v3/wordpress/2009/06/10/a-unique-person-with-common-sense-in-the-ep/
Recent:
What use are research patents?
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| In any case, I'm not buying David's assertion that "most universities", or
| most hospitals or research institutes for that matter, rely heavily on
| licensing income. And that being so, I am also somewhat skeptical about the
| number of researchers' families being supported by patents.
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| What's the Open Science connection? Well, if you're interested in patenting
| the results of your research, there are a lot of restrictions on how you can
| disseminate your results. You can't keep an Open Notebook, or upload
| unprotected work to a preprint server or publicly-searchable repository, or
| even in many cases talk about the IP-related parts of your work at
| conferences. It seems from the data above that most universities would not be
| losing much if they gave up chasing patents entirely; nor would they be
| risking much future income, since so few seem to get significant funds from
| licensing.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2009/06/what_use_are_research_patents.php
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of “upstream” patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable “patent thicket” blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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