[ExI] Gene Patents: Good or Bad?

[samantha]

Rafal Smigrodzki 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.
>   

What exactly would be valid measurements of or criteria for this 
"efficiency"?    What kinds of peers in what areas? 

- s

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