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Australian Patent Lawyers Claim Patenting Genes Is Necessary For Biomedical Research
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| This is, of course, ridiculous. First of
| all, much of the research on these things
| is often done via government and
| university funding -- and it's often done
| for reasons other than locking up a
| monopoly on the technique. Reasons such as
| helping people live better lives (*gasp*
| -- what a concept!). Or, more to the
| point, it's done so that firms can sell an
| actual product. If they have to compete in
| the marketplace, that's a good thing, as
| it pushes them to be more efficient and
| offer a better overall service, rather
| than just jacking up prices. And how do
| they offer a better overall service? Oh
| yeah, often by continuing to do more
| research and creating new breakthroughs.
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| These sorts of claims of industries
| collapsing are moral panics and folk
| devils put forth by patent attorneys who
| are really afraid that it's going to hurt
| their own business.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091105/1133206816.shtml
Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote
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| Every lawsuit filed or even threatened
| under a California law aimed at electing
| more minorities to local offices â and all
| of the roughly $4.3 million from
| settlements so far â can be traced to just
| two people: a pair of attorneys who worked
| together writing the statute, The
| Associated Press has found.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2SDH3__-E0qPHGFgh9lzNjL5AzQD9C037A83
Lawyers Write Law, And Then Are The Only Ones To Make Millions Directly Off Of It
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091116/0811056949.shtml
Recent:
The Cultural Gulf Between Lawyers And Technologists On Patent Law
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| On Wednesday I attended the Brookings Institution's conference on "The Limits
| of Abstract Patents in an Intangible Economy." The conference was organized
| by software patent skeptics, so that perspective has been well represented.
| But I was struck by the dramatic differences between the views of lawyers on
| the one hand (who made up the majority of the panelists and audience members)
| and the handful of technologists on the other.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090114/0831213405.shtml
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