npub1yy8jnmvkegndrlygssm979wf04jema23uc3384fu8nklacxfqyas5vyfzq (npub1yy8…yfzq) You mentioned trade secrets, but there's another aspect to patents… the cost of research.
In some situations, research is super expensive, but copying the result is super cheap. Example: drugs or vaccines, which can't be kept as a trade secret, once produced and distributed.
You can argue that medicine shouldn't be patented, but capitalism drives innovation, and you only have to look at the state of healthcare in the former USSR to see evidence of it.
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2023-11-29 14:46:56
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