Patents
  
  • Principle: To promote Progress of Science and useful Arts

  • a privilege, not a right
  • a restriction to freedom fo creation
  • opposes: Public Good <=> Private interests

  • purpose: promote and help

  • through a temporary monopoly ensuring
    • reward
    • return on investment

  • but at a cost for society
    • economic viscosity
    • technological viscosity
    • litigation and economic insecurity
    • ethical and societal problems (biotech, culture, ...)

    Bernard Lang, INRIA - AFUL - ISOC France

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