[Alex3917]

> Universities trying to protect their franchise as businesses rather than advancing their core mission.

While I'm generally skeptical of Bayh-Dole, in part because it incentivizes universities to fake their research results, I also think their actual points may be valid. E.g. because the private sector has more money than them to spend on lawyers, this would leave them unable to enforce their I.P. rights, which would cause their patents to become basically worthless.

Even if you could make a good case for eliminating the patent system, which I think would be difficult, undoubtedly it's much more difficult to make a good argument for why only the super rich should be allowed to own intellectual property.

[bediger4000]

undoubtedly it's much more difficult to make a good argument for why only the super rich should be allowed to own intellectual property.

In that case, Rightsholders become the new aristocracy: a patent or something is akin to a coat of arms.

[bsder]

> Even if you could make a good case for eliminating the patent system, which I think would be difficult, undoubtedly it's much more difficult to make a good argument for why only the super rich should be allowed to own intellectual property.

Um, have you looked at the patent system lately?

Only the super rich can afford the legal fees to enforce their patents, anyway. It doesn't matter if I have a patent if the big guys can just grind me into dust, anyway.