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

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167 points thisismytest | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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osigurdson ◴[17 Nov 24 05:21 UTC] No.42162170[source]▶
I don't think the world is a net better place with no IP or copyright laws.
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portaouflop ◴[17 Nov 24 07:33 UTC] No.42162584[source]▶
We won’t know until we try it out.
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1. pxmpxm ◴[17 Nov 24 13:28 UTC] No.42164096{3}[source]▶
Public ownership of capital assets has been tried, and tried, and tried... with the same results.

You can pretend to ignore the idea originally coined by Aristotle, but you can't will it into reality.

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2. thayne ◴[17 Nov 24 21:54 UTC] No.42167655[source]▶
There is a huge difference between all capital assets being public, and not considering ideas to be a capital asset.