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Really? How about socializing all of medicine.
Including drug discovery? I'm very skeptical of that working out better than the current system (for drug discovery).
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You still need patents. Healthcare is an obvious example, if we eliminated patents we'd have 0 new drugs pass FDA approval over the next decade. But software is very different from medical patents.
Really? How about socializing all of medicine.
So if you got rid of patents innovation in some industries will be fine (software) and others will be wrecked (medical).
Patents are not the only way to incentivize innovation, and I think it'd be great to experiment with some other ways.
Socializing medicine is completely orthogonal to this issue. Unless you mean socializing drug discovery which would be a completely unproven way to develop drugs at scale.
Every so often a patent troll story comes up on HN, and people like me bitch about how broken the system is and get group therapy from shouting into the wind on a web forum. What can we actually do . How do we start fixing this problem?
Companies like Apple, AMZN, MSFT, have enough resources and money to change the system but it wouldn't benefit them in the end. A few hundred million might seem like a lot to us but it's trivial to them. Sure they will defend themselves, they've got a lot of Lawyers on payroll that need to do something to earn their salaries. I can't imagine the carnage they could collectively unleash on the Judge, Jury, County, Stat…
That doesn't mean that Apple and Google are intentionally trying to preserve the legal environment for patent trolls to operate, but on some level it still is in their interest.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-25/the-te... An entire industry has sprung up in Texas specifically around the extortion of actual technology companies -- which almost always exist in other states -- and it has been profoundly corrupting. https://www.judicialhellholes.org/hellhole/2015-2016/u-s-dis...
This May 2017 SC ruling should have fixed a lot of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food...
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Or dont do patents at all.
You still need patents. Healthcare is an obvious example, if we eliminated patents we'd have 0 new drugs pass FDA approval over the next decade. But software is very different from medical patents.
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Congress should just invalidate all submarine patents, full stop. When the 13th amendment was passed slave owners didn't get to "grandfather in" their existing slaves. Extreme example, but the point is sometimes old laws are so harmful to society we should not allow people to continue abusing them.
You're absolutely right, however let's note that no rational person would conclude that Apple actually infringed on any invention of this patent troll. This case should have gone nowhere, and the plaintiffs should have been sent home with a bill for the defense's legal counsel. I mentioned in another comment about the Eastern District of Texas which became effectively a giant grift operation (though a recent SC case…
The patent system, at least in the US, is broken and supports many actions, like patent trolling, that only benefit such vermin. Rather than trying to make life harder for such trolls we should focus on fixing the patent system. My 2c.
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Watch The Patent Scam, by the X-Plane's (flight simulator) founder Austin Meyer. https://www.thepatentscam.com/
I always find "watch this documentary" to be pointless. If the person's already convinced that patent abuse is bad, they don't need to watch a 2 hour video to reconfirm their beliefs. If the person is sitting on the fence or not convinced, there are better ways to provide information to them than getting them to stare at a screen for 2 hours.
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Including drug discovery? I'm very skeptical of that working out better than the current system (for drug discovery).
Our current system uses incredible amounts of public funding for drug discovery. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329
That’s a decent chunk of money, but it’s important to put it in perspective. Pfizer alone spends around $10B per year on R&D. J&J: $12B. Merck: $13B.