Some great points were made here around investment opportunities and free competition in the marketplace. Have you considered that some ideas/inventions require large amounts of capital for R&D and that the patents are there to protect the developer to the extent that they can recoup their costs during the protected period of the patent? I do however agree that there are certain areas eg: pharmaceutical drugs where patent law becomes a hard pill to swallow (excuse the pun). Whilst it is needed in order for the big pharma companies to even consider investing of their time and money in developing and producing life saving drugs, it also acts as a barrier to entry for much cheaper generic versions that could save countless lives if made available with more immediacy. Thankfully with covid-19, the world pharma pulled together to ensure a co-ordinated rapid response at a relatively reasonable retail price and many vaccines have been donated as part of the cause.
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