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Originally Posted by HarryT
You could turn it around and say that none of these devices, drugs, etc, would exist if it were not for patent protection. No company would be willing to invest money in research unless the law gave them the legal protection to have exclusive rights to exploit or license the fruits of that research.
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I wasn't joining the OMG Patents are Evil brigade.
Just pointing out that there are far worse negative impacts that the one highlighted in this thread.