The Supreme Court is about to decide whether patent law has gone too far. Which is good. Because it has.
Currently you can patent a "business method", not to mention an algorithm or DNA. That's bad. That means you can patent a living being, and ban it from reproducing without paying you a fee. Not ok.
Patents have value. Protecting inventors so they have some incentive to invent makes sense. But today there is WAY too much value for inventors to milk their old inventions and not enough public good. Inventions should eventually come into the public domain so they can be imitated, modified and improved upon. But right now that can't happen.
I hope they make it better.
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