[ExI] Gene Patents: Good or Bad?

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Tue May 25 21:12:30 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Sondre Bjellås <sondre-list at bjellas.com> wrote:
> You are exactly right regarding searching for any topic on the web ;-)
> Which is why I'm asking "who and what" is the reason for your statement:
> "Clearly, yes, patenting stimulates innovation"
> The content I read on patents does not clearly say that patent stimulates,
> on the contrary, I must be reading the wrong material.
> Check for instance "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan
> Kinsella: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7511095/Against-Intellectual-Property-by-Stephan-Kinsella-

### OK, let's start at the beginning:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4132712

Countries without strong patent protection did not produce innovations
except in the industrial branches where profits from innovation could
be realized without patent protection.

Rafal

PS. I notice you are linking to polemics devoted to a specific point
of view, not to original research aiming at gaining understanding of
the issue at hand.

I am extremely resistant to being swayed by polemics.




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