Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…
`How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation` Sometimes its not about innovation. Many companies buy patents and make high priced drugs. These drugs can be made available to the poor for very less price, but patents like these block local makers from doing so. Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-tha...
India blocks Colgate patents for spices
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Re: India blocks Colgate patents for spices
#12Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…
> abolished patents
> How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation?
I'm sorry, but you seem to have jumped from "patents" to "patenting combinations of spices" here. I don't think that you did this intentionally, but you replaced the topic in between; first, you formulate your thesis as "we should abolishing patents", and later, you seem to be proving it, but you really only prove a different thesis, "we should abolish patenting combination of spices".
Don't you see the difference between these two?
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#13OT but this is not the first comment to I don't think I am hijacking.
Page loads fine (Actually started reading the article) then goes to http://www.deccanherald.com/enable_javascript.html
How retro (Plus the fact that the page actually DOES work without JS...)
Re: India blocks Colgate patents for spices
#14Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…
> abolished patents > How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? I'm sorry, but you seem to have jumped from "patents" to "patenting combinations of spices" here. I don't think that you did this intentionally, but you replaced the topic in between; first, you formulate your thesis as "we should abolishing patents", and later, you seem to be proving it, but you really only prove a different t…
Err, this is called exemplification. It is a common rhetorical device. Really this could have done with any patent, which all need to go.
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#15Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…
For the longest time I have been wondering when a pharma would try to patent Neem for tooth/other medicinal uses. Little did I know that the patent application had already happened.
I am glad such a repository exists to handle prior art for Indian medicines. I am worried about African/other poor countries that are unable to protect their indigenous medicinal use cases since they may lack the repository. Perhaps they can piggy back on the Indian effort or may be a worthy premise for a socially oriented startup with some funding from the big and/or little names in VC.
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#16"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar". Put some in your lentils for added yum.
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#17"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety of plants/herbs/spices, it's quite clear that many of them do have quite a lot of beneficial health effects, often unique in being more effective or having less side-effects than western medicine. Pla…
absolutely.
so please, once you have a serious condition only take your spices.
no penicilin (or does it count as mold?), no insulin, no aneasthesia for you. just a little cinnamon.
wear glasses or contacts? away with them! a little pepper in your eyes works wonders.
and they wonder why seattle has lower polio vaccines rates than kazakhstan or tchad.
Re: India blocks Colgate patents for spices
#18"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety of plants/herbs/spices, it's quite clear that many of them do have quite a lot of beneficial health effects, often unique in being more effective or having less side-effects than western medicine. Pla…
"artifical" medicine is all about having a specific dosage of the active chemical.. if you are consuming raw herbs then chances are you have no idea what dosage of the active chemical you are taking, which can affect the quality of your treatment. Given the importance of dosage (it can be the difference between medicine and poison) Tim Minchin was 100% correct.
Re: India blocks Colgate patents for spices
#19"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar". Put some in your lentils for added yum.
This is probably a misspelling for darchini, i.e. cinnamon
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#20Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…
In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about fighting over imaginary monopolies.
On that note: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2834 (it's a textual story, not a comic)