Comment Re:Abolishing patents (Score 1) 476
Do these guys realise that abolishing patents means the death
of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries?
This is where patent laws (as they exist now) are most destructive.
Natural Substances such as Glutathione or Vitamin C ("alternative medicine") cannot be patented. Only synthetic substances (mutations of natural molecules) can be patented. Thus from the pharmaceutical industry's point of view no profit.
This has nothing to do with the benefits or effectiveness of substances which haven't been through the process of mutation and usurpation as "Intellectual Property". But it has everything to do with the priorities of wealth and health in practice.
Perhaps when the "Pirate Party" can no longer buy vitamin C to treat their scurvy, the issue of just how profitable of a business medicine should be will get addressed.
This is where patent laws (as they exist now) are most destructive.
Natural Substances such as Glutathione or Vitamin C ("alternative medicine") cannot be patented. Only synthetic substances (mutations of natural molecules) can be patented. Thus from the pharmaceutical industry's point of view no profit.
This has nothing to do with the benefits or effectiveness of substances which haven't been through the process of mutation and usurpation as "Intellectual Property". But it has everything to do with the priorities of wealth and health in practice.
Perhaps when the "Pirate Party" can no longer buy vitamin C to treat their scurvy, the issue of just how profitable of a business medicine should be will get addressed.
