[DIYbio] patents

On 05/03/2018 10:59 AM, David Murphy wrote:
> It's likely also an unsubtle jab at the regulators to tell them to create a variation on patents more suitable to rewarding such
> things.
>
> it's like the problem with antibiotics. The sane and sensible way to use new antibiotics is to hold them back in reserve for the
> absolute worse cases as a final line and perhaps decades on when they're less effective use them more. But that's a terrible
> pattern for anyone with a patent. Which reduces the incentive to invest in novel drugs. Hence we need something more suitable than
> existing patents to reward developers of antibiotics.

I think patents have a place, but the timing of them has not been updated for a good while and we
are in an accelerated tech time where new developments are possible much more quickly, and yet
the 20 year time span of a patent stifles innovation by locking up some of the good ideas that
can be built on top of for too long.

I'd like the term of patents to be decreased to ten years.

Not sure how to deal with public health issues like reserving working drugs except by govt, but
another change to patents that would help innovation is grant them for a tech, but open up improvements on that tech
by automatically calculated royalties to the patent holder for those that go beyond copying and
build on top of the basic concept patented. How would any legislators, lawyers, patent holders, and judges ever agree
to how to automatically calculate though...

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