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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 05:07 AM EDT |
Thank you:
It is not illegal to analyse a drug to make a copy so patents are necessary.
It is illegal to analyse [copyrihted] software code so patents on software code
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 07:26 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: mvs_tomm on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
any interested competitor can take your drug
home and reverse
engineer the formula.
Maybe. Analyzing a complex chemical
compound is not a trivial exercise. That's why, for example, the formula for
Coca-Cola is still a secret. Even if you are able to determine the molecular
structure, that does not guarantee that you will be able to replicate
it.
Pharmaceutical development is a lot different to
software
development
I am not convinced. The argument that you
present about the need for patents for drugs sounds to me a lot like the
argument that some give for software patents.
Software you can
just say 'hmm, you know what
would be a neat idea? slide to unlock' - and in the
process
of conceptualizing the problem you essentially have
'invented' the
solution.
Software development is not that simple. I work as a
software developer. Implementing software often takes hundreds or thousands of
man-years. It is a lot easier to copy an executable library than it is to copy
a drug.
Tom Marchant [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 08:58 AM EDT |
IS done in state owned labs (or by charities who publish the research).
Cheers,
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