[Algemeen] UK Pirate Party believes that patent law promotes innovation somewhere, don't vote for them

[Arend Lammertink]

Lijkt me geen goede reclame:

http://twitter.com/zoobab/status/10968999941

http://i5.be/aEv :

"We believe that patents exist to reward the inventors of truly
outstanding ideas, not to allow big businesses to stifle competition
with an ever-growing tide of trivial, incomprehensible, overreaching
patents. We will stop the abuse of patent law by raising the bar on
how innovative an idea has to be before it can be patented, and by
prohibiting patents on software, business methods, concepts, colours
and smells. We will require a working model to be provided to the
patent office before a patent is granted, and we will strictly enforce
the current rule that patents are invalid if they are "obvious to
someone skilled in the art". We will allow more competition in the
manufacture of patented devices by introducing a system of compulsory
patent licensing, and we will provide exemptions to patent law for
non-commercial use, personal study and academic research.

Pharmaceutical patents are a major problem for the world. We need to
strike a better balance between the need to pay for drug research, and
the need to end the postcode lottery that UK citizens suffer when
patented drugs are too expensive for the NHS. We need to tackle the
problem of preventable deaths in the third world caused by high price
of patented drugs. We will achieve this by abolishing drug patents,
which will reduce drug costs drastically, since all drugs will become
generic. This will save the NHS a massive amount of money, and part of
that saving will be used to subsidise drug research. The
pharmaceutical industry currently spends around 15% of its patent drug
income on research; we will replace that with subsidies to the value
of 20%, increasing research budgets, while still saving the NHS money.
This policy of making all drugs generic will create a massive
opportunity for industry to make profits, employ more people, and save
lives by encouraging the manufacture of newly generic drugs in this
country for sale to the third world."


"raising the bar" is slechts een pleister op de wond, die op de
kortere termijn gebruikt kan worden, omdat dit niet in strijd is met
TRIPs, AFAIK.

Het uiteindelijke doel moet m.i. zijn het afschaffen van het hele
systeem, omdat het fundamenteel gebaseerd is op het idee dat innovatie
met grote sprongen
plaats vindt, niet werkt en ook niet kan werken, omdat innovatie,
zeker heden ten dage, nu juist met kleine stappen vooruit gaat. Als je
die kleine stapjes wilt "beschermen" dan ontkom je er niet aan de
"bar" laag te leggen en dat is ook waarom die zo laag ligt.
Dit is een fundamenteel dilemma, ooit beschreven door Dutfield IIRC,
en uiteindelijk de reden waarom het patentsysteem niet werkt.




Gr.

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