mistercrayon wrote:7 year limit on patents might be useful in some tech but the 20 year limit likely keeps the price down for drugs etc. (I'm not sure if it would but Presuming the same level of investment is required to make the money back the cost would need to go up - counterbalanced by generic versions being allowed to come in earlier)
equinox_code wrote:Of course there is. Firstly, it'll be the capitalist countries footing plenty of the investment cost, while we cheaply clone it.
And secondly, because it's universities doing so much of the work anyway
Heard Sao Paolo are trying this? Any idea how it's going down with the punters?Brooks wrote:.. No more public space advertising. ...
There's no incentive to invest money in creating drugs? What a strange thing to say. You must wonder how medicine ever got anywhere without patents.Yossarian wrote:But then there's no incentive to invest the money in creating them in the first place.
djchump wrote:Heard Sao Paolo are trying this? Any idea how it's going down with the punters?Brooks wrote:.. No more public space advertising. ...
Roujin wrote:I'd like the Dollar to be tied to the value of gold again please. Global currency market operating as a FIAT system sucks all the chode.
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