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==== Patents in the Information Age ==== | ==== Patents in the Information Age ==== | ||
- | As we have transitioned from the industrial to the information age, global patent law has lost touch with the changing world. Patents now function as a deterrent to innovation rather than as an incentive. The patenting of knowledge in areas like genetics and biotechnology, | + | <del>As we have transitioned from the industrial to the information age, global patent law has lost touch with the changing world.</ |
Monopolies on plants and seeds and costly legal disputes about often trivial patents already demonstrate how it is both innovators and consumers who have to pay the price. Patent law needs to be reformed or replaced with an approach that enables freer and fairer markets instead of continuing to further stifle innovation. | Monopolies on plants and seeds and costly legal disputes about often trivial patents already demonstrate how it is both innovators and consumers who have to pay the price. Patent law needs to be reformed or replaced with an approach that enables freer and fairer markets instead of continuing to further stifle innovation. | ||
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==== Rebalancing Patents with the Common Good ==== | ==== Rebalancing Patents with the Common Good ==== | ||
- | PIRATES believe that patents exist to reward the inventors of truly outstanding ideas, not to allow big businesses to stifle competition with an ever-growing tide of trivial and overreaching patents. | + | PIRATES believe that patents |
We therefore want to halt the continued and increasing abuse of patents. | We therefore want to halt the continued and increasing abuse of patents. |
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