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30 June 2012
How Extending Patent Protection For Antibiotics Creates Perverse Incentives To Render Them Useless
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We take antibiotics and their ability to kill practically all bacteria for granted. But scientists are increasingly warning that we may ...
08 December 2011
Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents
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Of all the dysfunctional parts of the patent system, drug patents are arguably the worst, since the exorbitant prices that patent monopoli...
02 July 2008
From Smashup to Mashup
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As somebody who is not wont to restrain himself when the UK government gets it hideously wrong on the IT front (hello, ID cards), it behoves...
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20 November 2006
Prizes, Not Patents
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I've written enough about why the patent system is broken; criticism is easy, but it's harder coming up with alternatives. Here...
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