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Showing posts with label prizes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prizes. Show all posts
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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