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That's what the "bigcorps" will do. Then they will enter formal or informal cross-licensing agreements. But, they will still use their patents to crush any smal
by briansmith 17y ago
That's what the "bigcorps" will do. Then they will enter formal or informal cross-licensing agreements. But, they will still use their patents to crush any smaller competition.
- noonespecial 17y agoThat may be so for the short term, and certainly inside national boundaries, but I don't think the "rich countries own all of the ideas" thing is going to be a sustainable global equilibrium state. This will become the norm: http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaids-drug.html http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaid...