Still following the content of the two emails below see the recent text in the link above which shows many more believe that the current patent system only serves corporate agenda, fosters unsustainable wild capitalism being unsuitable to serve Humanity in the XXI century.
________________________________________________________________________
De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 28 de Setembro de 2018 6:49
Assunto: Public funded science is inspiring corporate patents (and profits)
Following the email below see the recent paper in the jornal Nature
Biotechnology entitled "Mapping the global influence of published research
on industry and innovation" https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4049#t1
table
1 list influential authors that receive a lot of citations in patents that
their work was able to inspire. So the question is: Should corporate pay a
symbolic 1% fee due to public-funded science-related inspiration?
Of course symbolic may not be the most appropriate term because let´s
not forget that for instance the first trillion-dollar company Apple pays an
overall corporate tax of just 0.7%
_______________________________________________________________________
De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 12 de Agosto de 2018 14:14
Assunto: The rigged patent game that "stands in the shoulders" of the unknown
A well known senior professor of Leiden University, Anthony F.J. van
Raan, recently published a paper on patent citation. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jdis/2/1/article-p13.xml
This is an important field because helps to show how corporate companies patent innovations
that are based on previous research paid by public funding. At this moment
the patent game looks like a long-distance relay running in
which only the athlete who crosses the finish line receives the gold medal. All the others receive zero!
