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 ==== 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, as  well as software, renders it a tangible threat to the future of our  society.
+<del>As we have transitioned from the industrial to the information age,  global patent law has lost touch with the changing world.</del> Patents <del>now</del>  //mostly// function as a deterrent to innovation rather than as an incentive. The patenting of knowledge in areas like genetics and biotechnology, as well as software, renders it a tangible threat to the future of our society.
 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 ====
-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 //do not// exist to <del>reward the inventors of truly outstanding ideas, not to</del> allow big businesses to stifle competition with an ever-growing tide of trivial and overreaching patents.
 We therefore want to halt the continued and increasing abuse of patents.