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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

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167 points thisismytest | 4 comments | 17 Nov 24 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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ixaxaar ◴[17 Nov 24 04:45 UTC] No.42162021[source]▶
What a sad fucking world. I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.
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levocardia ◴[17 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42162150[source]▶
...steal them from the Americans?
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immibis ◴[17 Nov 24 05:16 UTC] No.42162157[source]▶
You can't "steal" what wasn't valid property to begin with - even if the law likes to pretend it is valid property.
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1. golergka ◴[17 Nov 24 06:29 UTC] No.42162377[source]▶
When you don't defend something like a property, profit goes out of building it. And that's the opposite of what we want to do in a capitalist society. Building intellectual property is a positive-sum thing. It makes humanity better. This is something we want to reward, make profitable.
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2. PittleyDunkin ◴[17 Nov 24 07:01 UTC] No.42162463[source]▶
Nonsense, it's anti-competitive. It works against the theoretical benefits of the private economy.
3. bboygravity ◴[17 Nov 24 08:07 UTC] No.42162732[source]▶
Maintaining monopolies through artificially raising the barier to entry for their competition (patents) is the exact opposite of capitalism.
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4. stoperaticless ◴[17 Nov 24 23:24 UTC] No.42168265[source]▶
Opposite of free market. Capitalism = private ownership and profit from ownership.