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Yes, there are a few crackpot ideas for which there are special rules, including perpetual motion. But anything else is fair game, and there is a fairly foolproof process by which you can get a patent on anything. It goes more or less like this: 1. Draft the patent application. You don't even need to do any research. The PTO will do that for you. 2. Wait for the application to be rejected, which it almost certainly w…
That is just... appalling.
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The economic harm to society that comes from patents is more than enough to fund public research that could employ the same smart people to discover the same medicines.
Not saying you're wrong, but the implication that such public research would happen assumes facts not in evidence.
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Not new. Turbotax has long lobbied the government to make the tax law convoluted so you have to use Turbotax (or another similarsoftware) so you can avoid fines for submitting the wrong amount of taxes.
That has nothing to do with patents and/or patent trolling. You don't need to pay patent royalties to file your taxes.. (for example)