Comment on EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'parentComments−Retric13yThe classic drug pipeline includes pure research companies that would be NPE's.−against-patents13yIsn't it rather possible that the right answer for software is not like the right answer for drugs, and that it takes an expert in a particular field to propose a sensible reform (assuming one is needed in that field)?A lot of the questions about what patents tend to do seem to have different answers in different fields: http://inventors-against-patents.org/faq.html#is_abolition_o...−krichman13yUS healthcare has an abysmal cost-to-benefit ratio in comparison with most of Europe.
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The classic drug pipeline includes pure research companies that would be NPE's.
Isn't it rather possible that the right answer for software is not like the right answer for drugs, and that it takes an expert in a particular field to propose a sensible reform (assuming one is needed in that field)?
A lot of the questions about what patents tend to do seem to have different answers in different fields: http://inventors-against-patents.org/faq.html#is_abolition_o...
US healthcare has an abysmal cost-to-benefit ratio in comparison with most of Europe.