[ExI] Gene Patents: Good or Bad?

[samantha]

Dan wrote:
> This is a good resource for works dealing with patent issues from an anti-IP perspective:
>
> http://ip-policy.wikispaces.com/
>
> But, since patents do require the use of force to enforce, the burden should fall on the patent advocate to support them. Where is your peer-reviewed evidence for patents working?
>
>   
Nice resource and very timely.  I am in the process of creating and a 
small group talk called "IP and the Future".   I was tempted to call it 
"IP vs the Future" but that seemed prejudicial.  :)  Thanks!

- s


> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
> To: Sondre Bjellås <sondre-list at bjellas.com>
> Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 4:45:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Gene Patents: Good or Bad?
>
> 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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