g5000
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That would require increasing the federal workforce. Why do that when the necessary infrastructure already exists in the private sector?Maybe I should have been more specific. If the government wants the fruit to basically be public domain, they should do the R&D themselves--fully and exclusively.
Sure it is. Especially if those patents were extended beyond the initial period of exclusivity. All a big pharma company has to do is bribe the right people, and they could extend their patents forever.But to seize binding patents simply because grant money was given to a private business is not an acceptable rationale.
That is not the intention of the patent system.