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Why were they required to patent it and sell the patent?
by rndgermandude 7y ago
Why were they required to patent it and sell the patent?
- makomk 7y agoI think the organization funding it (which if I recall correctly was the EU) wanted the university research they were funding to turn into commercial products, and so set a blanket rule requring patenting and attempts at commercial licensing. This is a fairly common view on government-funded research these days unfortunately. There was a published report by the main researcher somewhere with more details.
- mcv 7y agoWell, that was a stupid idea, then. Instead of selling the patents of public research to private monopolies, they should have made them available to everybody.