The US patent and IP system is completely perverted.
The reason to have copyrights and patents is to fairly compensate the innovators (that part works really well). But there's an expiry on both patents and copyright - that's explicitly there so innovations can benefit the people, and to spur new innovation. And that's where the US system falls apart. Loopholes are found times and again and in the US once you have a copyright or patent, you basically have it forever. A monopoly, hurrah!
That's just plain wrong. The US needs to fix its system. I imagine when that happens it will also make more sense for Pharma industry to spend more on R&D than they spend on marketing and bribing Doctors and healthcare providers and politicians.
Really happy to hear Indian courts don't fall for this sort of crap.
How can Disney have a copyright on Mickey Mouse? An absolute joke.
The reason to have copyrights and patents is to fairly compensate the innovators (that part works really well). But there's an expiry on both patents and copyright - that's explicitly there so innovations can benefit the people, and to spur new innovation. And that's where the US system falls apart. Loopholes are found times and again and in the US once you have a copyright or patent, you basically have it forever. A monopoly, hurrah!
That's just plain wrong. The US needs to fix its system. I imagine when that happens it will also make more sense for Pharma industry to spend more on R&D than they spend on marketing and bribing Doctors and healthcare providers and politicians.
Really happy to hear Indian courts don't fall for this sort of crap.
How can Disney have a copyright on Mickey Mouse? An absolute joke.