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The Value of Patents
I am intrigued on patents because actually if you go back before we had trips and all of the patent system much wider variety on patent length terms. Yeah, no I agree I think on copyright special interest you know essentially publishers and the like and maybe artists in the top 0.0% have this locked up but average say artist or writer it does seem to be harmed by it. Most of the value created by a drug is the knowledge that it is safe and effective not necessarily how you manufacture it. So it's hard to protect that knowledge once it's out there like you need a patent to protect it.
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