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Nooo, please don't make your research for free. Do a patent first, then you can make it free for fellow researchers while heavily tax any commercial company usi
by unnouinceput 7y ago
Nooo, please don't make your research for free. Do a patent first, then you can make it free for fellow researchers while heavily tax any commercial company using this. I am sick and tired to see research published for free to use by everybody only a few months later a micro-increment of said research is done by a big pharma company who of course now will patent it and boom, none will be able to freely build upon that because "hey, we're a big company and we want our mighty $$$ in our pockets". And when finally a new application of said simulation will hit the market will cost an arm and a leg - see current insulin prices for example.
- knolan 7y agoHow can they patent if the researcher publishes the work? Any patent search would show this to be prior art.
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- unnouinceput 7y agoIf the initial research is not patented and the big company makes a tiny research on top of it just to have a small innovation then they can patent the new research any way they want and in the process they will legally own the old research too. Just look at how the entire patent litigation is right now and is full of trolls that will patent anything they can think about and later will hit real work later.