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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
I suggest reading the following:
http://www.dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.9.m1004.pdf
It's the chapter from Boldrine and Levine's "Against Intellectual Monopoly" that deals with patents in the pharmaceutical industry. Note that the authors are not radical leftist like myself. They are strident Free Marketeers, as far as I can tell and Levine himself once "held the Armen Alchian Chair in Economic Theory" according to his website, so he's hardly a novice. |
Also check out
this link, it also exposes the R&D argument of big pharma. A lot of pharmaceutical companies are using university and government research for free.
On topic of the thread, I like my iPhone and Apple but I'm disappointed that they are engaging in these legal battles. This is a minor feature, and I don't think it will convince a significant number of people to purchase a device one way or the other.