[ExI] Gene Patents: Good or Bad?

[Sondre Bjellås]

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-


- Sondre

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <
rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Sondre Bjellås
> <sondre-list at bjellas.com> wrote:
> > Says who and what? Does it apply to all engineering fields?
> >
> > Quick Google search gives me:
> > http://techrights.org/2009/07/11/study-shows-patents-stifle-innovation/
> >
> > " It’s extraordinary how the myth that patents somehow promote innovation
> is
> > still propagated and widely accepted; and yet there is practically *no*
> > empirical evidence that it’s true. All the studies that have looked at
> this
> > area rigorously come to quite a different conclusion."
>
> ### That's the problem with a quick search - you can find a document
> in support of virtually any opinion that has ever been articulated by
> humankind.
>
> Now, give me a direct link to a preferably peer-reviewed publication
> on the subject of efficiency of patent law, and we could have a
> discussion.
>
> Rafal
>



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