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Nationalize this IP and require the IP to be open source. Figure out the payments afterwards.
Why not nationalize the IP from all the ventilator manufacturers and make a best of breed version. But we would have to get it into mass production in a month to be of significant benefit.
I wonder if there is a project where a cheaper hospital for a third world country can be created by using tech which is old but not covered under current IP (expired patents). I mean i believe stuff like MRI cannot be manufactured by non large manufacturers but what about all other machines. My guess is the bottleneck would be no one except current manufacturers make it at scale to do it cheap enough. It would be a g…
- In May 2018, Medtronic was ranked as the largest corporate tax inversion in history. [1]
- Medtronic weaseled their way out of creating affordable ventilators for the US government.[2]
[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-id...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
Nationalize this IP and require the IP to be open source. Figure out the payments afterwards.
Why not nationalize the IP from all the ventilator manufacturers and make a best of breed version. But we would have to get it into mass production in a month to be of significant benefit.
There is no way to manufacture one from this set of docs.
I wonder if there is a project where a cheaper hospital for a third world country can be created by using tech which is old but not covered under current IP (expired patents). I mean i believe stuff like MRI cannot be manufactured by non large manufacturers but what about all other machines. My guess is the bottleneck would be no one except current manufacturers make it at scale to do it cheap enough. It would be a g…
Not only are the files incomplete to actually go into production, they’ve picked a model where the components are not readily available on the open market in quantities large enough to have an impact corresponding to effort. IC4 is some variant of the ST10F27 (can’t make out the last digit from the low res pdf they’ve provided), and there are only a few thousand of all variants of that chip available online with quot…
More dirt of Medtronic: - In May 2018, Medtronic was ranked as the largest corporate tax inversion in history. [1] - Medtronic weaseled their way out of creating affordable ventilators for the US government.[2] [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-id... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
Medtronic's slogan ought to be 'yesterday's tech for tomorrows prices'.