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167 points thisismytest | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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.

levocardia ◴[17 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42162150[source]▶

...steal them from the Americans?

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.

osigurdson ◴[17 Nov 24 05:21 UTC] No.42162170{3}[source]▶

I don't think the world is a net better place with no IP or copyright laws.

1. marcosdumay ◴[17 Nov 24 19:26 UTC] No.42166364{4}[source]▶

There may be a net benefit from some class of patents, but that's very far from clear.

Drugs and chemical processes are the most obvious candidates. And there's some heavy empirical evidence against the later.

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