Worth noting that the paper is from the same two professors who published "Against Intellectual Monopoly". It's a very small clique of people who produce much

Worth noting that the paper is from the same two professors who published "Against Intellectual Monopoly". It's a very small clique of people who produce much of the anti-patent literature. That would certainly leave it open to manipulation (just as if you want funding for a paper attacking global warming you'll find plenty of money to do so from the oil industry). Whether that's the case here, I don't know, but I'd hope that this topic can be studied by more people.