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In medicine, patents are a government-granted benefit to inventors that sort of counteracts the government-imposed penalty of having to go through FDA approval.
by codeflo 13y ago
In medicine, patents are a government-granted benefit to inventors that sort of counteracts the government-imposed penalty of having to go through FDA approval. There's a nice symmetry here.
If we look at industries with less regulation, like software, the necessity for a patent system is a lot less clear.
- zanny 13y ago> like software, the necessity for a patent system is a lot less clear. Software is a terrible example, since every story such as this one demonstrates how absurd and stupid software patents are. It is plain as day.