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This crisis will force us to rethink patent laws and healthcare regulations. under the current circumstances, patent laws and other laws designed to give the me
by bronzeage 7y ago
This crisis will force us to rethink patent laws and healthcare regulations. under the current circumstances, patent laws and other laws designed to give the medical industry Monopoly over their creations are preventing life saving actions. We will eventually reach a point where a vaccine / cure is found, and instead of allowing all possible companies to manufacture it, patent laws will delay things and actively cause thousands of deaths from those delays.
- Retric 7y agoThe US government can already legally ignore patents. Or simply keep them sealed them for national security reasons: https://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/181.html https://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/181.html Finally, forced licensing is another option.
- pdelbarba 7y agoThey do it with software licensing for sure. There are almost certainly satellites and weapons systems out there with GPL code in them but good luck proving it.