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Comment Patents don't advance the public good (Score 1) 44

Stamping ownership over a process and letting a person or other entity charge others for use of that, particularly given that when an idea has all its prerequisites in place independent discovery is almost inevitable - look at how often the sciences see independently dupliicated discoveries - means that patents are more letting any jerk put up a toll gate anywhere they please in the space of ideas.

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