A lot of it seems like the sort of thing that it's not that valuable to give some of them an opally on. If someone's going to go invent a new drug and they're going to have to invest hundreds and millions of dollars in developing it, you better give them an incentive. But when it feels like someone could invent it in a garage in a month, for me, it feels harder to justify giving them a patent on it.
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