http://techliberation.com/2007/10/29/patent-reform-potpourri/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:14:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/29/patent-reform-potpourri/comment-page-1/#comment-48555 Timon Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:54:39 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/29/patent-reform-potpourri/#comment-48555 It is probably useful to remember that the pharmaceutical industry has its feet in both patent worlds - they patent inventions requiring high sunk costs and true innovation but they also patent things like the combining of new salts and compounds with known pill technology. They don't like the idea of obvious or inefficiency-creating patents disappearing because those represent a chunk of their "intellectual property", not the revolutionary cures. It is probably useful to remember that the pharmaceutical industry has its feet in both patent worlds – they patent inventions requiring high sunk costs and true innovation but they also patent things like the combining of new salts and compounds with known pill technology. They don’t like the idea of obvious or inefficiency-creating patents disappearing because those represent a chunk of their “intellectual property”, not the revolutionary cures.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/10/29/patent-reform-potpourri/comment-page-1/#comment-39699 Timon Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:54:39 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/29/patent-reform-potpourri/#comment-39699 It is probably useful to remember that the pharmaceutical industry has its feet in both patent worlds - they patent inventions requiring high sunk costs and true innovation but they also patent things like the combining of new salts and compounds with known pill technology. They don't like the idea of obvious or inefficiency-creating patents disappearing because those represent a chunk of their "intellectual property", not the revolutionary cures. It is probably useful to remember that the pharmaceutical industry has its feet in both patent worlds – they patent inventions requiring high sunk costs and true innovation but they also patent things like the combining of new salts and compounds with known pill technology. They don’t like the idea of obvious or inefficiency-creating patents disappearing because those represent a chunk of their “intellectual property”, not the revolutionary cures.

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