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Yeah, my experience is the patent gets licenced to some private entity that then squeezes a profit of it. The public sure doesn’t “benefit”. I’d prefer to see
by trollbridge 2y ago
Yeah, my experience is the patent gets licenced to some private entity that then squeezes a profit of it. The public sure doesn’t “benefit”.
I’d prefer to see such funding going to state universities, not private ones.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoThe public benefits by access to treatments that wouldn't exist had the research not been done. On the other hand I agree that research funded by tax dollars should not be patented and should be available to all.
- pavon 2y agoUnder the Bayh-Dole Act state universities do the exact same thing. They patent their research and license it to private companies. Their discoveries are no more or less open to the public than with private universities.